I don't have a label, I don't have a manager, I'm doing everything myself.

Believe in all the good things you keep inside There is no freedom in life without freedom of mind.

I don't listen to my own stuff unless I've been drinking a lot.

I feel like everybody knows the world isn't the happiest, most peaceful place. And though everybody has an idea of what's wrong, we're not changing it for the better.

I have an aversion to conformity.

Trying to be creative, yet having to deal with the day to day - I mean, there is a lot of stuff to deal with. Like sitting at the computer and sending emails.

There are bands now, and for years, that called themselves emo. I never followed that stuff.

Even when I am forced to conform - we all are on many levels - that line is definitive. It says exactly what it means: Be an individual, you know? Be yourself.

Almost everything I do, especially later on, is really very scripted. And I do it over and over again until it's perfect.

At this moment, I have nothing to do or ponder except love and wonder.

If God inspires your writing, others will know because it will inspire them when they read it.

Anything that needlessly robs you of your time, energy, and other precious resources is destructive to you and your leadership.

After all, we didn't bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.

Movies are movies, television is television.

My life's far too complicated to be summed up in one song. It would take 20 just to represent one single day.

Our generation had been told that life had seriousness, and we came in (to politics) with purpose. We were serving history.

If He asks much of you, it is because He knows you can give much.

I was really interested in piano and sort of discovered that I was a writer when I was about 13 and started writing. And it was my secret thing and my passion.

One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and hold fast to the days.