I'm kind of a hermit. Left to my own devices, I won't submerge myself in anything further afield than the driveway.

You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.

There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.

Good things never last, bad things never die.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

I am at a place in my life where the more like a cave I can make my surroundings, the happier I am.

I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.

It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.

A bands first albums usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.

Whilst you can be a stepping stone to help others succeed, you are not a dirty mat to be abused by others.

If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.

The easiest way to get old is to be technologically behind...

Only the ones who run are worth catching.

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.

A little glitter can turn your whole day around.

This is criterion by which the Church is to be judged, not by the forms of its doctrine or ritual, but by the reality of the reality of the love which it manifests.

If you want the meaning of families and life and religion and philosophy rolled into one package, all you need to read is The Brothers Karamazov.

... my mother and father ... raised nine of us and taught each to do our best ... We tried.

Boys do not have the monopoly in Staring Business, after all.