I'm a real workaholic.

Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.

The world is a strange and wonderful place.

Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.

Art is about paying attention.

History is an angel being blown backwards into the future

I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.

People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There's just regret.

I believe that the purpose of death is the release of love.

I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.

It's good to take a longer view and think, what would I really like to do if I had no limitations whatsoever?

Whereas cognitive constraints on negative emotions can reduce distress, freeing positive emotions from such constraints can enhance religious experience.

When others walk away from a lost cause, then that is the time you can step in and seize success.

Simplicity allows a measure of freedom which the complexities of modern life greedily consume – freedom to think, to reflect, to create, to serve and be sincerely generous with our time and presence.

In the moment, you most likely won't know how valuable such detours will prove to be, but life has a way of revealing the hidden magic in these moments down the road at the appropriate time.

No one will understand you. It is not, ultimately, that important. What is important is that you understand you.

The most important educational vehicle in all life is a parent figure.

What we've had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we're doing - the music.

I fell in love with the book [ Brief Interviews with Hideous Men] and always wanted to do something with and fought to get the rights, which was pretty fun and an incredible experience in itself.

This life gets lonely when everybody wants something.

When the lives of the unborn are snuffed out, they often feel pain, pain that is long and agonizing.