I'm not too sure if I have a very smart approach to revealing my life. Luckily, I doubt if many people really care about my life that much.

Serious music isn't listened to in a casual setting. You don't want to listen to that in headphones on the subway.

Never try to do anything artistic when you're feeling something overwhelming. It's like driving a car: If you're experiencing road rage, pull over.

If you start out with a song sounding like Britney Spears, and you end up with a song sounding like Pauline Oliveros, you'd better have pretty good liner notes explaining what on earth you mean.

Well, there are certainly original things to say. But I'm not sure that a pop song is the appropriate format to say them in.

I think there is such a valid concept as "serious music," meaning that if you don't take it seriously, you don't get it all.

There's a whole kind of melancholy that you can only attain with reverb. That's an example of a technology introducing a whole new meaning.

At first I was laboring under the impression that Chinese lyrics didn't rhyme. That turned out to be untrue - they don't rhyme in translation.

I can imagine lyrics becoming better written by smart machines rather than stupid musicians. Songwriters generally have nothing to say. They may as well be replaced by machines.

My mother says I have boring percussion.

When you're making a singular pop song, you don't really need any subject matter. You just sort of say, "Uh, I love you." And then you try to figure out some rhyme for that, and there never is one.

God has given us all our unique story. It's not one that flows easily or pretty, but the story is ours! Find it and treasure it...

Jesus is the culmination of the greatness and the goodness of God.

It sounds crazy, to think that I cared so much without ever talking to you.

Life should not be estimated exclusively by the standard of dollars and cents.

In geology the effects to be explained have almost all occurred already, whereas in these other sciences effects actually taking place have to be explained.

Riches do not come by crossing your fingers and walking through the day hoping. Riches and wealth comes from well-laid plans.

I know I've done the right thing but I couldn't feel worse about it, and I suppose that is part of what it is to lead.

Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.

Someone's always going to come down on the side of the fence.

I don't wear heels every day, but when I'm out, that's how I feel confident.