I don't concern myself with award. I'd been to the party enough times to know it really didn't matter.

Put God first in everything you do ... Everything that I have is by the grace of God, understand that. It's a gift ... I didn't always stick with Him, but He stuck with me.

Goals on the road to achievement cannot be achieved without discipline and consistency.

Be careful what you ask for because when you pray for rain, you have to deal with the mud as well.

Don't aspire to make a living, aspire to make a difference.

Why do we close our eyes when we pray, cry, kiss, or dream? Because the most beautiful things in life are not seen but felt by the heart.

The chances you take… the people you meet… the people you love...the faith that you have - that’s what’s going to define your life.

Do what you have to do, to do what you want to do.

To protect the sheep, you gotta catch the wolf. And it takes a wolf to catch a wolf, you understand?

A man once told me that you step out of your door in the morning, and you are already in trouble. The only question is are you on top of that trouble or not?

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

The fig tree had dropped its fruit all over the ground. Ripe figs lay in the dust, exploded, bloody, as if the sky had rained organs.

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

The habit patterns of the human mind are very strong and make it seem that the hard way is easy and the easy way is hard.

This is an hour of history that troubles our minds and hurts our hearts.

For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.

You guys have so much energy. I threw a party in Toronto and there were, like, 4,000 people who couldn't get in.

At this point, I think I would garner a lot of hate mail if I was now on the cover of Modern Drummer seeing as I'm not a modern drummer anymore.

Life is like riding in a taxi. Whether you are going anywhere or not, the meter keeps ticking.

Stop obeying a dictator; you will then see that he is nothing! Stop obeying a king; you will then see that he is nothing! If you refuse the Devil, you will then see that he will shade away!

I'd be surprised if Ronald Reagan doesn't run again. To us it's a second term. To him it's a double feature.