I guess when we're happy, it's easier to go with the flow, and when that happiness or joy is interrupted, that's when we get contemplative and break out the guitar or pen and write about it.

I don't know if it's true that most people don't know this, but the reason that I play music is because of my favourite band of all time - AC/DC.

Winter is coming.

writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind.

He that hath a calling, hath an office of profit and honor.

Scotland has the only football team in the world that does a lap of disgrace.

Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me.

The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.

Faith is the vital artery of the soul. When we begin to believe, we begin to love. Faith grafts the soul into Christ, as the scion into the stock, and fetches all its nutriment from the blessed Vine.

Officials are the only guys who can rob you and then get a police escort out of the stadium.

My childhood was colorfully anarchic and punctuated by a lot of change.

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.