Great songs aren't written, they're rewritten

I don't regret the decisions or direction I've chosen, but I feel it's important to be self aware.

Time is always fleeting and the lunar phases represent that visually for me. What people take away from that and how they apply it within their own lives, that's entirely up to them.

I feel that bands can do whatever they want, after all, they own themselves and the art/music they create.

I've never been a fan of bands that go out and celebrate their age, I'd rather be celebrated for being relevant.

Genres aren't that relevant. Nearly every form of music is a melting pot of things of things.

As a writer, I never paid much attention to the length of titles. I've just wanted them to communicate the emotional overtones of the content of a record or song that they are describing

I feel that people spend as much time skipping songs as they do listening to them in their library.

Everyday that passes I am pulled from youth as how it has been defined by that culture into something else.

As writers, we're always trying to connect with the audience on a visceral level. We usually do that through drama, through emotion or through humor.

I happen to believe, and I think many others do, Donald Trump is probably the great public speaker in those large arenas since William Jennings Bryan.

A being with no faith in the human self is a being with no spirit of life, regardless of how many Fathers or Holy Spirits or Sons it believes in.

He finally comprehended that the sole impossibility regarding human sorrow is to arrive at some unsurpassable limit to it.

I'm self-taught. I didn't just become a man, it was a decision.

Hackers rarely have full knowledge of the technology stack of a target.

The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth.

It's not the time in your life, it's the life in your time.

Crowds speak in heroes.

When the Chinese suspect someone of being a potential troublemaker, they always resort to one of two methods: they crush him, or they hoist him on a pedestal.

Writing is hard work; its also the best job Ive ever had.

Everyone has obstacles, and you're not going to have the right answer or do the right thing every single time.