I do feel like it's so important not to take that for granted - that opportunity to share your ideas with intelligent, beautiful people.

The world is this incredibly blurry, crazy dream that I'm just sort of stumbling through.

And one day we will die and our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea. But for now we are young; let us lay in the sun and count every beautiful thing we can see.

Usually, I create tunes that are fragmented. I think the biggest obstacle for people with their creativity is that they feel they have to sit down and create this finished, polished product.

I would go to bed every night and have dreams about having a time machine and somehow I'd have the ability to move through time and space freely, and save Anne Frank.

I love the idea of a record containing an entire universe; where the sounds span decades of recording from all over the world and all sorts of different sources.

God is a place you will wait for the rest of your life.

Soft silly music is meaningful, magical.

I decided at 10 I wanted to be in a band; everyone else wanted to play football.

The music is supposed to be healing.

When I tried to grasp at either what I love or what I hate, I destroyed the very ability of being able to really penetrate the essence of either. By trying to understand it, I would just crush it.

The new disease of our age is being OK doing everything at exactly the same time.

Communism everywhere has paid the price of rigidity and dogmatism. Freedom has the strength of compassion and flexibility. It has, above all, the strength of intellectual honesty.

I don't belong to anyone else but myself. I have to make my own decisions. Happiness is defined by me.

If God can bring blessing from the broken body of Jesus and glory from something that's obscene as the cross, He can bring blessing from my problems and my pain and my unanswered prayer.

Knowing love or the hope of knowing love is the anchor that keeps us from falling into that sea of despair.

Now is the time to Start a Normal Christian Life!

The superior person is in harmony, but does not follow the crowd. The lesser person follows the crowd, but is not in harmony.

[Copernicus] did not ignore the Bible, but he knew very well that if his doctrine were proved, then it could not contradict the Scriptures when they were rightly understood.

Unfortunately, Poots is the name that I've been graced with for my life, but it's not short for anything.

We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater.