I actually don't go to shows anymore. Rock concerts have lost their appeal for me.

You gotta lean towards the things that make you like yourself. Forget everything else.

It is the melody and the rhythm that are by far the most important and then words and imagery and stuff, story bits will start to stick to a melody and that is the way I write.

I became at peace with the darkness or the personality that I have. I am usually pretty funny and happy.

I drink wine on stage to sort of loosen my grip on reality a little.

My parents know that I have always been sort of a dark melodramatic kid, so they were never concerned.

A song is a song and, if I am emotionally connected to do it, whether it is sad or not sad, I am going to chase that song.

I don't want somebody telling my daughter who she can marry, or what she can do with her body. That's what was at stake.

Maybe because I have spent too much of my life in rock clubs. I don't really go to parties anymore either. I'll usually be in the bus by 11:30 after a show.

Live on coffee and flowers. Try not to worry what the weather will be.

Not all the songs are real events, but I do write about stuff that is close to my heart and it comes out one way or another.

I would miss Colby, but it wasn't going anywhere. All the more reason why I should.

See the Divinity in others and you will find it within yourself.

I expect that Calvin would evaluate our worship today not as too emotional, but as too narrow in its emotional repertoire.

You learn to run by running.

I've had an amazing ride. I've been blessed beyond things that I could never have imagined.

It's not healthy to live life as a succession of isolated little cool moments.

A lot of the issues of rhythm in film are found in the editing because it's very rare that any sequence is the sequence that is shot.

I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it.

It is not what a man knows, but what he thinks of in time.

Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish.