Growing up playing jazz and improvising has had a big impact on me, and it translates into my music.

I remember swallowing my tooth up in a high chair, but I definitely don't remember the first time I played bass. It was like, back there!

When I was younger, I was always a musician that could play by ear better than I could analytically.

As time progressed, my songwriting developed out of my bass, because that's all I could do. I decided to take it as far as it could go and to use my skill as a tool.

Forget to criticize, but never forget to enjoy criticism.

If politicians stopped meddling with things they don't understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.

You know, I don't think, you know, therapy never ends, really.

A Jesus who never wept could never wipe away my tears.

Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.

Every woman, whoever she is, wherever she lives, should be able to give birth without the fear she's going to lose her baby or that her baby will lose her mother.

It's hard to do a camera inside of a car. Non-Stop would have been impossible. Usually modern lenses you can focus up to the lens pretty much, but anamorphic you can't. You need like three feet.

As a tree, even though it has been cut down, is firm so long as its root is safe, and grows again, thus, unless the feeders of thirst are destroyed, the pain (of life) will return again and again.

You may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don't imagine that, with all that you are saying, you will make a man that will live longer than he.

Thy love is Singular when all thy delight is in Jesus Christ, and thou dost find joy and comfort in no other thing.