Forgiveness is hard for me, man. It is for most American-Western males. It's a sign of weakness.

Santa Monica was a big song, and I always knew it would be radio friendly. But its not a defining song for me, though for a lot of people it is.

I like acting, but I like filmmaking better. I went to film school. I want to make films.

You dont have control of the car, but you can drive it. Life takes you where it wants you to go and where you need to go.

I have a pet peeve about bands that don't play their hits. I think it's kind of selfish.

If you cant say it in three minutes, I dont want to know about it.

Success to me is being able to do what I love, make a living at it and to support myself and the ones I love.

The world's most effeminate heterosexual, Daniel Johns

My goal is to make my kids as happy as possible.

I loved hard-rock bands, and I loved songwriters who told stories.

I just wanna be a rock star!

Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of 'the flock.

Life is too short for negativity. Focus all your energy to create happiness.

Do what you love to do, and do it with both seriousness and lightness. At least then you will know that you have tried and that--whatever the outcome--you have traveled a noble path.

Oh, sweet! New man meat’s made it to town, y’all. Let’s gobble.

True education reveals self-potential, more than just sows ideas.

Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older.

I know how to go, go, go. Stopping, I've learned is the stuff of mastery.

The profoundest order is revealed in what is most casual.

When he lived on earth, [Jesus] surrounded himself with ordinary people who misunderstood him, failed to exercise much spiritual power, and sometimes behaved like churlish schoolchildren.

[The Dalai Lama ] says Western traditions can teach Tibetans a lot about social action, and he thinks some Christians are very good at that.