I definitely have a firm, fixed idea of what compromise is for me.

If you get raised up having everything you want and then get put out in the world and try to live your own life, you've never had anything to train you how to live.

Apparently, there's this whole set of disgruntled people but obviously it's not my intention to offend anyone by changing the style of music that I've done.

During a big rock show, you can flub a few things and nobody will hear it, because it gets buried under everything else.

Who I am musically I hope will just keep changing and changing.

I'm not a fast, stream-of-consciousness lyricist at all - I know some guys who are, and if there is one skill I wish I had, it's that.

I have an awesome church home and an awesome Pastor down in L.A., and I couldn't be happier.

Cause I enjoy both, I enjoy recording and playing live, but yeah, the rush of playing live is really something.

But I needed to prove to everyone that I was a serious musician.

Right, yeah, you know, my favorite thing just globally about music is just hopefully I'm able to be, you know, blessing the people in any way that I can.

Sometimes I'll get a burst when I write lyrics, it usually happens in 20 minutes and I'll write the whole song, and that's really the only way it feels comfortable.

Wait a minute, I'm thinking, was this another one of those conversations where what is meant and what is being said are not the same thing?

The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.

If I was a fan of someone as a teenager, then it's OK for me to feel completely in awe when I meet them.

Theatre is more exciting in the sense that you can actually see the audience in the eye. You know there are no takes and retakes. You have one chance to do your job... and you better do it well!

Quaternions came from Hamilton after his really good work had been done, and though beautifully ingenious, have been an unmixed evil to those who have touched them in any way.

I don't know if that result's enough to life Birmingham off the bottom of the table, although it'll certainly take them above Sunderland

The Rosary is a prayer both so humble and simple and a theologically rich in Biblical content. I beg you to pray it.

Stress is your body's way of saying you haven't worked enough unpaid overtime.

I loved Batman, don't get me wrong, but that kind of mindless violence is not good for young children.

It amazes me that we spend 20% of the US budget on defense and far-off wars, and not on fighting cancer, disease, and aging.