I'm a perfectionist and I can kill songs because I analyze them too much. For me it takes awhile because I like to do it and then step back and listen and observe.

Love is God and God is love, no one's below and no one's above.

The world can't take these smiles away.

The idea of The Boy Vs. The Cynic is the tension between the wide-eyed optimism in youthfulness where you think nothing can go wrong, "I've got the world ahead of me. I'm gonna be a go-getter.

There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.

No one is to blame for your future situation but yourself. If you want to be successful, then become "Successful".

Down time is where we become ourselves... a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels inside that fuel creativity.

You can bet there's something fishy going on. I guess some large mouth bass left that lipstick on our shirt.

I will bring our energy companies back. They'll be able to compete. They'll make money. They'll pay off our national debt. They'll pay off our tremendous budget deficits, which are tremendous.

The fanatic is not really a stickler to principle. He embraces a cause not primarily because of its justness or holiness but because of his desperate need for something to hold onto.

It's one thing to be certain, but you can be certain and you can be wrong.

The masses think that is is easy to flee from reality, when it is the most difficult thing in the world.

Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?

Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living