I love going out every night. It’s so exciting.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.

You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.

I smoke pot because I want to go to heaven before I die

Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.

It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what they think you are.

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

I don't edit information, I follow it.

I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It's a parallel thing in me.

I came to Christ when I was thirty-eight. That transformed my life.

Compassion is the ability to understand how difficult it is for people to be the best of what they want to be at all times.

I am what I am, so take me as I am!.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

It doesn't pay to be good at something unless you are the absolute best at it.

My own goals center around writing the best music that I can, and only I can determine whether or not I've succeeded in accomplishing that.

My dental hygienist is cute. Every time I visit, I eat a whole package of Oreo cookies while waiting in the lobby. Sometimes she has to cancel the rest of the afternoon's appointments.

Vietnam was really an idealistic thing to stop the spread of communism, which, incidentally, it did. It was a pretty costly way to do it, but it achieved its goal.