I didn't move to Nashville with any inkling or dreams of getting a record deal. I didn't have those stars in my eyes. I just wanted to take a break, relax, and figure out songwriting.

I love dry British humor. I love to sketch in my off time. I love tequila.

Fine arts education in public schools is really abysmal. The same emphasis should be put on music, theater, dance - anything creative - that's put on math and science.

I want to be as gracious and thankful as I can because it has been a long road.

In Texas, it's legal for a kid to be in a bar with your parents.

It's hard to tell where reality ends and illusions begins. They blend - then they separate

The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night.

You can only get discipline in the mass by discipline in the individual.

When you please your mother by doing something, it gives you confidence that you can please other people.

You will find peace and happiness if you will live the gospel.

It is disgraceful that people are being barred from neighborhoods and clubs on a basis that would have barred Jesus Himself.

It's all we ever wantedAnd all we'll ever needAnd now it's slipping through our fingersFaster than the speed of night.

When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.

I have so many things to do today, I dare not ignore my time with God.

For me, what all these years of psychedelic taking came to was a new model of how reality works, a new model of what the world is.