I don't understand being idle; I don't have an idle setting. I probably should develop one.

You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.

There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.

Good things never last, bad things never die.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

I am at a place in my life where the more like a cave I can make my surroundings, the happier I am.

I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.

It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.

A bands first albums usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.

Always spend your time on things that add value and purpose to your life

He that would govern others should first be the master of himself.

I cannot create authentic power in you. I can only create authentic power in myself. But, I cannot create it in myself without you.

And her life will perhaps be the richer, for holding now within it the memory of what came, but could not stay.

The journey is its own reward.

Capture the day, put minimum trust on tomorrow.

From 1940 to the present, the art world and particularly Los Angeles, has undergone a transformation not unlike the Italian Renaissance.

Going forward seems like retreat.

In daylight I belong to the world . . . in the night to sleep and eternity. But in the dusk I'm free from both and belong only to myself . . . and you

The greatest thing you can do is surprise yourself.