A good song to one person could just be something mediocre to somebody else. It's always strange thinking about how songs connect with people.

I think a lot of people spend a lot of time talking about what they hate rather than what they love. I don't want to get trapped in that.

Nobody is strong 100 percent of the time, or falling apart 100 percent of the time; sometimes you're doing both at once.

Life's too short to be shoehorned into a box that isn't for you.

I'm abstaining from romance and the discussion of romance.

I like the idea of a record being more than one thing emotionally - human beings go through so many emotions in one day, and I like those things sitting next to each other.

I try not to say exactly what songs are about sometimes, because I feel like it ruins it for people.

I learned drumming as a second instrument because I didn't want to sing. Sometimes I would quite like to be left in the back, in the darkness by myself.

Nothing gets my hackles up like being told I can't do something.

I think a lot of things that people think are complimentary are a little bit condescending, but then we just have to keep doing what we're doing, and being in the band is the important bit.

Internet has been really amazing, and I think it's a place of great passion, creativity, and knowledge.

Knowing nature is part of knowing God. Faith directs us to the invisible God, but leads us back from God to the entire visible world.

As for me prizes mean nothing. My prize is my work.

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

Doubt is an element of criticism, and the tendency of criticism is necessarily skeptical.

The riding of young horses is an excellent nerve tonic.

The region of the senses is the unbelieving part of the human soul.

The love you have for your kids is so overwhelmingly powerful that it alters your perspective. The dark things going on in the world become very poignant and vivid.

I'm in a great situation because I know what kind of player I want to be, I know where I'm going to be, and I know what I have to do to get there and I'm around the right guys.

Doesn't the world inside a black and white photograph seem more real? It's because the real world is losing its color

... the best way to own common stocks is through an index fund.