I think your teenage years define your musical roots forever. You're always looking for a theme for your high school years.

I don't like being lied to.

I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends.

I did have Skidz overalls. Remember Skidz, those baggy plaid pants that look like pajamas? So I did rock overalls, but not in purple velvet. I couldn't find those.

You have your vision and you need to be focused, but you have to listen. I never felt a sense that the wheels were going to come off because we're all friends and family. It was all good.

I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.

I didn't win prom king. By that point, I'd quit sports except for soccer, so I was really just a theater guy. I totally lost to the captain of the football team.

You don't ever see a thriller with a spiritual backbone.

I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time.

Somebody can paint with a fine brush like Monet and do millions of little dots or somebody can splatter it up there like Kandinsky or Jackson Pollock and go "Yep, that's art." That's okay.

For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.

Directing the mind to stay in the present can be a formidable task.

No sport, watching horror movie with friends in bright room.Try that alone at night without light with mirror above screen!

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.

I think it was hard at first for my dad to transition to being immobile.

If your world today seems confusing, be comforted by the words of the prophets of God who have told you what the future holds for you as a child of God.

I never go perform somewhere alone. I've done that since day one. I've always taken other comics with me.

A poet's mission is to make others confound fiction and reality in order to render them, for an hour, mysteriously happy.

Human beings have a tendency to push away unwanted pain, but my experience is that when I give my consent to it, it delivers its gift and moves on.

After all, we are not promoting welfare. We are promoting work. We are not pushing for more entitlement programs. We are pushing for more enterprise. We are not trying re-distribute existing wealth.