Diagnoses exist to help get people services they need - but there's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill.

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.

When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms.

Righteousness is light

The ones who are in the Senate have to have a position.

Wise men say, only fools rush in. Wise men are so slow.

I think Donald Trump is simply incapable of sticking to a single message. Or of understanding that he doesn't know better than everyone else in every circumstance.

I've got an accountant who's been with me forty years. If he makes a mistake, he dies.

I learned to distrust writers who talked about how they squeezed the blood onto the typewriter. They just don't want you to know how much fun they have - you'll resent it.

I think that Americans are very grateful to the Bush family for their public service.

Be prepared for the worst, my love, for it lives next door to the best.

Next year we have to be even better. If we want to be a big club this has to be one of many.