I am at a place in my life where the more like a cave I can make my surroundings, the happier I am.

You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.

There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.

Good things never last, bad things never die.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.

It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.

A bands first albums usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.

Young people like to feel self-righteous, like they're on the right side of things.

Do not judge a woman on her knees_you never know how tall she is when she stands!

It's not about how long you can live, it's about how long you can forget and forgive.

Conventional wisdom may not be wise.Good fortune and bad luck do not exist.Freedom of choice is predetermined.Don’t believe anything you read!

You are hatching from the past.

There was something about her playing... a knowledge of darkness in the most extreme form.

The hardest decision of the day is always the first decision you must make. It's the choice you make to TRY.

With Woods arms wrapped around me and the beat of his heart pressed against my chest, I knew he would hold me steady. If I ever fell, I’d have him to catch me.

Listening to liberals invoke the sanctity of "science" to promote their crackpot ideas creates the same uneasy feeling as listening to Bill Clinton cite Scripture.

Children don't drop out of high school when they are 16, they do so in the first grade and wait 10 years to make it official.

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.