I just started writing stuff to kill time on summer evenings. This is why I'm always telling people who ask me what they need to do to succeed to give up, do something else.

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.

The loss of a reliance on others often helpfully forces a more sophisticated rumination that enables the opening of previously unknown avenues.

Let me beg you, not to rest contented with the commonplace religion that is now so prevalent.

It's sometimes hard to know who's choosing whom - the poem, the song, or the writer.

The rise in world oil prices has been larger than anyone forecast.

I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.

Bruce Marshall's acoustic set gets a big thumbs up from me.

Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.

I wonder how much it would take to buy a soap bubble, if there were only one in the world.

The great thing about meditation is that I don’t ask for anything. Whereas when I pray I always ask for things!

I don’t want to be a person with full hands, resting from dreams, but a person full of dreams unable to rest his hands.