I've probably gone a month or two without playing guitar, just because I've gotten so burnt on it touring all year or whatever.

If you get raised up having everything you want and then get put out in the world and try to live your own life, you've never had anything to train you how to live.

Apparently, there's this whole set of disgruntled people but obviously it's not my intention to offend anyone by changing the style of music that I've done.

During a big rock show, you can flub a few things and nobody will hear it, because it gets buried under everything else.

Who I am musically I hope will just keep changing and changing.

I'm not a fast, stream-of-consciousness lyricist at all - I know some guys who are, and if there is one skill I wish I had, it's that.

I have an awesome church home and an awesome Pastor down in L.A., and I couldn't be happier.

Cause I enjoy both, I enjoy recording and playing live, but yeah, the rush of playing live is really something.

But I needed to prove to everyone that I was a serious musician.

Right, yeah, you know, my favorite thing just globally about music is just hopefully I'm able to be, you know, blessing the people in any way that I can.

Sometimes I'll get a burst when I write lyrics, it usually happens in 20 minutes and I'll write the whole song, and that's really the only way it feels comfortable.

There's not much you need to know about the world. Except how to use a sword and trust very few.

The television image sanctified, conferred identity. The more familiar the face, the more to be trusted.

Zero Expectations? What's that? I believe in Smart Expectations.

Patterns of the past echo in the present and resound through the future.

The internet makes everything not enough.

This guy [Tim Kaine] is every bit as radical as Barack Obama is. Every bit.

Dreams are like portraits; and we find they please because they are confessed resemblances.

I always tell my fans that are closest to me, if it's not coming from my mouth, my website, or my appointed person, then it's generally not true. Or it's an exaggeration.

And then we continued blissfully into this small but perfect piece of our forever.

My wife was my greatest asset. I didn't marry her until after World War II, but she has complemented me in every job I've ever had