Better a loving single-parent family than a 'conventional' family where the parents hate each other and the father is a demagogue.

The good thing about working alone is I get a lot done and I can experiment more. The bad thing is I miss out on the gregarious, social way that most musicians work.

One simple word: ugh. Is something still considered a conspiracy if it's played out right under our noses?

My reason for becoming a vegetarian was simple: I loved (and love) animals

I'm envious of people who can sleep as long as they want. I have the circadian rhythm of a farmer.

The good thing about not being drop-dead gorgeous is that as time passes, I don't have much to worry about. I have friends who are actors and every day they look in the mirror with trepidation.

Could you look an animal in the eyes and say to it, 'My appetite is more important than your suffering'?

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.

Ignorance is the parent of fear.

Dogs have boundless enthusiasm but no sense of shame. I should have a dog as a life coach.

I like noise. It's always puzzled me why one of the goals of contemporary recording is to get rid of noise and to eliminate any element of a performance.

Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.

Until God’s Word becomes a Picture that you can see, it cannot become a reality in which you can feature.

Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas—only I don’t exactly know what they are!

Men don't understand how their mannerisms can get on women's nerves so that you feel you just have to snap.

Saving the world was merely a hobby. My *vocation* has been that of inspector of desert water holes.

That strange premature genius Chatterton has couched in one line the quintessence of what Voltaire has said in many pages: "Reason, a thorn in Revelation's side.

This belief in God has to be based on faith which transcends reason.

We judge our own character by our best intentions and most noble acts, but we will be judged by our last worst act.

Muffled lives explode in understatements.

Everything in moderation, including moderation.