I take all of my music seriously and personally.

Mullets are still going strong in the south and places like St Louis or the Carolinas.

Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism.

I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard.

Now I am obsessed with collecting Platypus paraphernalia.

I need to broaden my horizons.

Music is a very personal and emotional form of communication.

It's too hard for me to comment on the sorry state of our culture.

Hopefully, as a band, it will grow and develop for a good length of time.

I mean, I would hope that I have a style or personality that is evident wherever I go.

I love being a musician. I love the lifestyle. But I think it's probably as difficult and frustrating as anything.

The family that reads together grows together!

Throughout the hours of the night, though there had been few to hear it, the whole sky had been loud with the singing of these constellations.

When a hadeeth is found to be saheeh, then that is my madhhab.

Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune.

I don't think it's completely better. I still have to do annoying things sometimes and explain things that I don't feel I have to [about LGBT].

I race historic muscle cars back in Australia, and that's my hobby. And I try to race home as soon as I've finished a movie but don't tell anyone.

You only communicate to pass the time, or to express the emotions. Your tongue has to develop [the capacity] to speak consciousness.

Questions to ask yourself: Are you a good teacher? Who would know? You would. Your students. Your friends. Your God. Not a bad audience, that!

Just as science is more immediate and exciting than the history of science, so is insight more compelling than a history of insight.

How beautiful an old woman's skin is! All those wrinkles!