Even when I take the path to go be a CEO for a month, or a CEO for a day- music is still there. It’s an extremely important part of what I am.

Multimedia scares me off.

Interviews are usually a follow-up, like a press junket or a publicity junket, or something like that, and I’m not doing any of that right now. I don’t have any axes to grind.

You don't have to fight against being placed in a box any more than the number two has to fight against being the number three. I mean, two is not going to be the number three, ever.

As an artist, you don't think about the parabola or the arc you're describing or where you're going to ultimately end up, you're just kind of crawling around, seeing what's out there.

I just finished a novel, and I'm back kind of noodling on the screenplays. Screenplays are tough. I am making music, I'm just not sure what kind of music it is or where it's going.

It's important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way we understand things.

There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way.

I'm not performing now. What I do now is listen to music all day long. Listening is very nourishing to me. I might go back to perform, I might make another record. I've got a record half finished.

Behind every dark cloud there's usually rain

You have to have access to ideas. The Internet is facilitating that access to ideas. In 25 years, the way that data's going to flow back and forth, we don't quite understand yet.

One of my rules is never to look sideways at what other people are doing but instead, do what I feel is right.

Power does not alter a man's character. It merely reveals it.

I have an impulse to write all over the orange walls- I need an alphabet of endings ripped out of books, of hands pulled off of clocks, of cold stones, of shoes filled with nothing but wind.

Everything that's innocent to us is crazy to them.

The sea has now changed from its natural, to river coloured water, the probable consequence of some streams falling into the bay, or into the ocean to the north of it, through the low land.

That's prayer to let God's Word speak deep within you and tell you, "You are my beloved. You don't have to take an eye for an eye. No, no you're too rich for that."

The last person one wants to be is themselves. Sadly, that is the best person to be.

I had that hunger, that desire, to be successful and I wasn’t going to let anything stand in my way.

It's amazing the life that I?m living today, and I count my blessings every day for the gifts that God has given me.

It's amazing, but I guess that happens when you become overly famous. Every week now, I get more famous.