For this relay there was a little more pressure because it's the 200, you have to make sure you swim it smart. The 100 was more about energy.

I don't know what my version of a relationship or marriage is yet, because the typical model seems a little broken to me.

I like to do weird things in the shower, like drink my coffee, brush my teeth and drink a smoothie. It's good time management.

I don't believe that life is linear. I think of it as circles - concentric circles that connect.

I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.

Everything's connected, and everything has meaning if you look for it.

There was a weird, innate kind of understanding between me and Christina (Ricci). A psychic told us we were sisters in a past life.

Listen, I've always been very headstrong.

Is there anything better than making a kid laugh?

I love things that are old and beautiful and tell a story, even if it's a sad one.

There was a sense of being taken on a journey by the grandmaster of the road trip. You feel this weird angel taking you somewhere. You don't know where, but you trust him.

Only the Holy Spirit can give us peace in the midst of the storms of restlessness and despair. We should not grieve our Guide by indulging in worry or paying undue attention to self.

You lost my interest, you aren't a nice guy and very nasty guy.

There is nothing so disturbing to one's well-being and judgment as to see a friend get rich

I'm curious by individuals that embrace half a story so they can justify how incomplete they feel about their own self worth.

Every saint has a bee in his halo.

There are so many ways to go wrong. All we've got are metaphors, and they're never exactly right. You can never just Say. The. Thing.

Humor is a universal language.

That's typically what writers do; we just sit around complaining most of the time. And the better things are going, the more they complain.

He tipped her head up. "Don't give up. Don't leave me before you're even here.

I made a conscious decision that I was not going to have children. I didn't want others raising them, and looking after them myself would get in the way of being a musician and writer.