I choose to believe that there is good in people and that everything is a lesson. Our place on Earth is to go deeper, to somehow get wiser. To have spirit.

A song is like a saddle: you ride it for a while, and if it's the right kind of song you can sing it for the rest of your life.

Our imagination it is our greatest ally . . . Imagination is a very, very powerful thing. It literally invents the path before you.

The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the rest. People are so locked into not being present.

If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that.

Well, everything about singing, I learned from busking. Everything I learned about songwriting, I learned from busking.

Our imagination just needs space. It's all it needs, that moment where you just sort of stare into the distance where your brain gets to sort of somehow rise up.

I've realized, you know, having turned 40, that rest is just as important as work. In fact, it's equally as important.

Do I create conflicts for myself? Sure I do.

I only ever really take out my guitar when I'm miserable, which isn't necessarily a very good time to do it.

I won't say I've closed the door on acting.

If you’re not angry, then you’re just stupid, you don’t care. How else can you react when something’s so unfair?

You obviously want the results but you must do your job in every at-bat and deal with what every situation dictates.

That's the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it's gone, it's too late to get it back.

I don't see any difference in the craft of acting, in film or television. It's absolutely the same. It's different storytelling, playing a character over multiple hours, as opposed to two.

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

Honesty has always been very important to me.

It takes a great cook to pull life truth from poultry.

3D doesn't work quite so well with quick cuts and I probably would have done some longer takes had I really taken that information onboard.

Seeking happiness in material things is a sure way of being unhappy.

The church was first established and organized with a world-wide mission for a world-wide work.