I'm so disconnected from an indie-rock community that I am the hermit people used to guess I was.

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.

I'm trapped behind a wall of fear and fear itself.

Purposefully living a life that glorifies the Kingdom is the essence of our creation

I'm singing from my heart now more than ever. I've gotten a lot braver with my writing.

I have slowly come to realize that a family is composed of people who are teaching one another.

A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.

Let the greatest part of the news thou hearest be the least part of what thou believest, lest the greater part of what thou believest be the least part of what is true.

Imagine what things would be like if the news media actually sided with civilization.

True humility is absolute obedience and dependence on God. It puts Him first, others second, and ourselves third in all things.

I'm still breathing because I have faith. My faith and my kids are the two things that matter.

I guess I define myself as a mother, a wife, kind of a nutty person. A good person.