[I] like to be anchored by routine, not shackled by it.

I’m not afraid of the real truth. There is nothing you can tell me about yourself that is going to make me clutch my pearls.

How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own detestable mother?

Be careful what you get good at doin', cuz you'll be doin' it for the rest of your life.

You are always going to face forces that can bring you to your knees.

I was purely content to sit in the car and wander around my own mind. Watching the world itself, the people in it, and my whole internal life was more than enough to keep me entertained.

My father has said a hundred times, and I have paid attention, that it's stupid to let money be the reason you don't do something.

Badass is a juvenile aspiration.

My parents seemed incredibly special and outrageously handsome to me then.

This is the crepe. This is the cider. This is how we live and eat.

I knew that I did not want to go to that juvenile diversion program because I had an intuitive sense that it would turn me irrevocably into the kind of character that I was now only rehearsing to be.

When you look down on yourself, you set an example on how others should treat you.

Everybody prayed

The difficulty of IVF or of any fertility issues is the hope and the shattered hope, the dream that it might happen this time and then it doesn't happen.

Don't dodge difficulties; meet them, greet them, beat them. All great men have been through the wringer.

I constantly work at maintaining balance. For me, my family comes first. If my family is taken care of, then everything else usually falls into place.

For 30 years, I've produced results for people.

I have all these revelations as I'm writing. Each song is like a chapter of my diary.

If you are ever inclined to pray for a missionary, do it at once, wherever you are.

One single word and I swear I’ll rip your tongue out. (Zephyra)

Life reveals itself to us only in so far as well live it.