I still listen to black metal all the time - that's obviously one of my favorite kinds of music - but I steer from it very strongly.

I had the idea to become really emotionally detached, and a lot of the time I've treated people that I've cared about a lot really unfairly.

Our houses are at least 12 feet under water. All you can see on TV are rooftops. And the bridge we came across, the I-10 twin span, is now split.

I love seeing people get excited.

I wanted people to connect with the lyrics, even if it's in some weird way, because they're all personal.

I've always had this thing where I've always seen my parents as people, from a very young age.

My mom really instilled in me this idea that parents are not perfect and they make mistakes.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

I regard taking healthy sea level adapted children to the 13, 796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea as a form of child abuse.

...if you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat - creativity is a rugged terrain...

If people were Superior to Animals, they'd take better care of the world

Justice to others and to ourselves is the same; that we cannot define our duties by mathematical lines ruled by the square, but must fill with them the great circle traced by the compasses

Honest history is the weapon of freedom.

The education of young people in science is at least as important, maybe more so, than the research itself.

Scotland cannot be the only 'something for nothing' country in the world.

What had made me move through so many dead and pointless years was curiosity.

Never think you can separate who you are from what you're doing.