As an artist, you always have to be growing. You don't just want to do what you already know people like.

You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.

There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.

Good things never last, bad things never die.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

I am at a place in my life where the more like a cave I can make my surroundings, the happier I am.

I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.

It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.

A bands first albums usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.

The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.

All the vital mechanisms, varied as they are, have only one object, that of preserving constant the conditions of life in the internal environment.

Any work you do, do it the best you can and achieve the maximum result.

America is a nation of prayer. It's impossible to tell the story of our nation without telling the story of people who pray.

Pathos activates the eyes and ears to see and hear. At times of pathos, illness opens doors to a reality which is closed to a healthy point of view.

Most women use more brains picking a horse in the third at Belmont than they do picking a husband

We Logans don't have much to do with white folks. You know why? 'Cause white folks mean trouble.

I'm fundamentally a busy person; I spend my time doing useful things and profoundly useless things!

I am very into genealogy and heritage, and that's how I started writing.

If there is anything of power in The Salvation Army today, it is because God has had all the adoration of my heart, all the power of my will, and all the influence of my life.