I usually like to make really dramatic songs that are dynamic from part to part - a lot of jumping from really quiet to really loud.

Go find something that you haven't done before. Don't do the same thing over and over again.

This is ten percent luck, Twenty percent skill, Fifteen percent power of will, Five percent pleasure, Fifty percent pain, and a hundred percent reason to remember the name

As a creative person you just get an idea in your head, and sometimes you just can't shake it off.

I loved Transformers when I was a kid.

I am Opposite of weak Opposite of slack Synonym of heat Synonym of crack Closest to the peak Far from a punk Y'all ought to stop talking And start trying to catch up

Who can't relate to the idea of leaving one chapter behind and moving on to the next?

A decade is a long time to be doing anything, much less to be with the same guys, chasing after the same goals.

When we started the band, it was because we were waiting for a sound that never happened. We got tired of waiting, and we decided to just do it ourselves.

Id rather get up early and go out and do something than stay up late and screw up my body.

I have a toothbrush, my toothbrush is sexy

Then would you read a Sustaining Book, such as would help and comfort a Wedged Bear in Great Tightness.

Vanity is apt to inspire contempt, but that becomes immediately tempered by a gentler and more gracious feeling; for the vain man desires to win our approbation, and in this way he flatters us.

I seldom know what I'm going to write when I sit down. There isn't much agony and sweat of the human spirit involved in doing it. The writing's easy, it's the living that is sometimes difficult.

There are in life a few moments so beautiful,that even words are a sort of profanity.

It is better - it shall be better with me because I have known you.

The truth is that God can do anything He pleases through an ordinary person who is fully dedicated to Him.

Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.

When is enough enough? In envy's eyes, enough never is. Somebody else always has something we want.

The best leaders are the most dedicated learners. Read great books daily.

He who is sorrowful can force himself to smile, but he who is glad cannot weep.