I wanted to touch on the piece where often politicians use "god" to excuse their actions.

As I've gotten older, I have gotten a lot better at finding the pleasures of making music despite the business of it.

I always write from rhythm first, so if I need a song fast, I have to start there. Then I just threw some electric guitar at it.

Really, everything for me comes from "Manifestra." It was an incredible gift of a song; it really describes an important moment in my life.

It's funny because my main awkwardness around writing the song had little to do with the method.

The only really weird part for me was making sense of the person on the TV at the same time as the person who I am friendly with and do something so friend-intimate with as text.

So many policy decisions that effect musicians are being made without any input from musicians at all.

I like garage band for writing because you only have crayons and there are only five crayons in the box. Your choices are limited and I find that to be very good for me.

I am really pleased to hear each of my songs described as a total surprise. This is what I want!

I didn't realize at the time that if I wrote about something, I was going to have to talk about something. A lot. Ad nauseum.

I learned how to have a little bit of distance when I explained songs and a little bit of distance when I wrote them. I think this is more interesting any way in art.

God’s supernatural self-control is available to us when we walk by the Spirit.

America is not a country of immigrants, we are a country of pioneers.

Take what life can give you, Ana, and do not trouble about the offerings which are laid in the tombs for time to crumble.

I was tired. Tired of men, tired of moving, tired of being scared, tired of being confused. But who was I kissing? I'm not one to sit quietly, anywhere.

Passionately protest mediocrity.

It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.

The cream of enjoyment in this life is always impromptu. The chance walk; the unexpected visit; the unpremeditated journey; the unsought conversation or acquaintance.

It's better to have died a small child than to be a politician who gets caught in a scandal during a slow news month.

Our scars are a witness to the world. They are apart of our story. Healed wounds that are symbols that God has restored us.

Most Americans have some experience with nursing homes or other long term care settings, and nearly half have had a family member or close friend in a home in the past three years.