I'm just really impressed by oil paintings - I don't see how people do it! That's the style I like: classic oil paintings. Abstract art just isn't my thing.

When stuff gets hard, and you're feeling real down about everything or in a cark space, a song can bring you out of it.

I was a strange kid. I'm still strange. People didn't get me. And I didn't expect them to.

Songwriting is like talking to yourself when there is no one to talk to.

The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way ... an uncomfortable mind in an uncomfortable body.

Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples.

Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.

Don't ever think that there are many ways to the Divine. Jesus is the one qualified mediator, the only qualified sacrifice, and the only qualified savior.

The doctor who willingly accepts destroying life will have no grounds on which to object if the state should compel that doctor to destroy life.

It is great to be a part of big-budget movies, but it is harder to feel like you are contributing, in the sense that it has such big machinery behind it.

A good writer is one you can read without breaking a sweat.

It is a mortal sin to discard the elderly.

The leaf, still green, must someday fall such grief and joy to live at all.

Kira is childish and hates to lose. I am also childish and hate to lose.