I want to be able to talk about changing the world through your actions and being a generation that is aware and a force to be reckoned with - and at the same time be dancing.

Having a baby is a life-changer. It gives you a whole other perspective on why you wake up every day.

You never get to pick how you get pinned and how people perceive you.

Don't change for anyone. The people that matter don't care, and the people that care don't matter.

The first music you really fall in love with is more than just music. It's something that clicks in you beyond the song; it's a message or image that causes you to jump in and not let go.

Radio is a really strange business now, too. There's a very narrow door and a very few people control what gets played.

It's really weird getting phone calls, and people going 'I love you, I love you, I love you.'

I've figured out what to do with my hands... onstage. I'm a percussion player, so I grab a tambourine as much as I can.

There's a weird fact that if you dropped a penny off the Empire State Building in New York City, you'd kill someone. I feel really bad, 'cause I dropped a nickel off it once.

You have to know what you want and keep going for it.

I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents.

The heart of animals is the foundation of their life, the sovereign of everything within them, the sun of their microcosm, that upon which all growth depends, from which all power proceeds.

If you have hung yourself out to dry, it means that you are still wet behind the ears.

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.

The Jesus who is the one whom we search for even when we do not know that we are searching and hide from even when we do not know that we are hiding.

If you do enough small things right, big things can happen

I had to beat the bags, big time, I had to get out into the den and start screaming and move it through my body.

Be brave enough to create.

Unlike the phone system, the Internet has no Ma Bell or FCC to mandate new policies for the entire system. Not even Microsoft can make us all upgrade our routers. I think.

Choose an author as you would a friend.