As a matter of fact my, my very first time singing when I was two and a half, three, was in church. So, ahm, church is very, very much a part of who I am.

Life didn't promise to be wonderful.

I've always been one to take chances and I've always been one to, to create or follow through with instincts.

I don't ever feel that it's necessary to say certain things. I think we can be very suggestive. I think we can allude to certain things.

When I go on stage I am just, I don't make any attempts to do anything more than just what makes me comfortable.

From the time I can remember my mother kept me in church. I think my first recollection of any place, being anywhere was in a church.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn't been the case for teaching.

To overcome the academic prose you have first to overcome the academic pose.

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

I paint a tree - I think of how the roots go deep, deep into the earth. How the tree grows year by year toward the sky. How it stands with the winds.

It's really weird to be playing chords again. Haven't played chords for a long time. I realised I haven't played chord changes since OK Computer and stuff like that.

It gives the guys confidence and self-belief. Two or three years ago I think we would have lost it. The confidence that we have, we can actually nail it.

College seems like a pretty expensive way to become an alcoholic.

I feel like the biggest failure of humans is miscommunication. We can't communicate with each other-we can fight, we can kill, we can do those things well.

My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.