I'm more interested in writing about the personal stories of people. Sometimes I don't agree with them.

You can be for something and still be damaged by it.

I'm lucky enough that people tend to agree a lot with what I say. But really if anyone in the band has a really strong feeling, it carries a lot of weight.

The road does not always bring out the best in people.

I feel like, as a people, we're sort of stumbling in the dark right now.

Paste may be the last great American music magazine left.

I've always thought preaching to the converted is just kind of futile and silly.

Racism is a worldwide problem.

A lot of the music that I grew up loving has a really political bent to it.

I dislike Bush as much as probably anybody on earth could, but having said that... It's not like I'm going to change anybody's mind.

I never want to be that guy spouting off my political views. I mean, they're pretty well known, and it certainly comes out.

Wenn man noch nicht das Leben kennt, wie sollte man den Tod kennen.

What we are today doesn't show what we were yesterday. After all, the only thing unchangeable about this world is the constant change

He did not care for the lying at first. He hated it. Then later he had come to like it. It was part of being an insider but it was a very corrupting business.

Positive thinking can move mountains, fill up valleys and it can make dry bones to become alive again.

I just want to continue to do comedy. Comedy, I'm discovering, is my niche. It's what I'm born to do, so I would love to have my own sitcom one day in the future.

The social Web is incredibly good at shining bright lights into dark corners.

Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.

Enlightenment is when all hope disappears. Enlightenment is disappearance of hope.

George W. Bush broke a mold four years ago: Even though he lost the popular vote, he governed as if he had won by acclamation.

In the seventeenth year of my age my mother died.