As I've grown - dare I say it - older, I had hopes of indulging my dreams of being a sailor.

What has worked before is never as good as something that has never been tried before, even if it doesn't work.

Songwriting is Hell on Earth. If it isn't, then you're doing it wrong.

The people who are making money are the ones who are writing and singing their own songs.

We as songwriters are in the same position as a professional fisherman. Our fishing grounds are kind of fished out.

The creative processes are so mysterious.

Someone left the cake out in the rain

I like words. I like the way they clash around together and bang up against each other, especially in songs.

I believe strongly in inspiration, inspiration literally meaning full of the spirit. I do believe that it comes to you.

In the end all that matters is climbing and pushing your personal limits. No matter the grade, if you climb something that was hard for you, then that's sick.

You reach a certain point in your life where they things you do and say do make a difference.

Wisdom is not making life any harder than it has to be.

Don't lose heart, we're just rusty angels.

I do not have a split mind. I am not different people. I am myself, the same self I have always been, the one person I can never escape.

[T]he man who meditates is a depraved animal.

Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.

I closely follow everything about user interface or human-computer interface: technology that makes computers closer to the way the human being actually functions.

I'm definitely attracted to the idea of people that have these big aspirations that the audience know might never happen, but they're lost in them.

It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.

It's your money. You paid for it.

It is God's job to forgive Osama Bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting.