I was a complete outsider in high school.

I'm not a quitter. I believe in following things through.

Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them.

Working pretty much nonstop as an artist, the hardest thing is to know what to do with yourself when you have some time off. You struggle with yourself to take a vacation.

I try to sing whatever the music makes me feel. And we play so much music from the other records at shows that I hope no one will miss the old style too much.

Sophomore records are historically really difficult.

I feel like there's a hunger in the culture now for the live experience maybe as a counterpoint to the more sort of synthetic lives that we've been living.

Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to school for film first, and kind of stumbling onto music as my career.

For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.

It's insane how quickly everything's changed. I always feel like I'm running hard to catch up.

My onstage persona really is a persona, you know, and really the moment I step onstage, it kind of kicks into gear.

It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.

There is a mighty big difference between good sound reasons and reasons that sound good.

When marriage exposes a person's selfishness and sins it's doing what it is meant to do: bringing our sins and wounds to light so we can recognize them, confess them, and begin the healing process.

Function is a fantasy...the form of designed things is decided by choice or else by chance; but it is never actually entailed by anything whatever.

I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.

They linger near the back door, forehead to forehead and curved like statues as their lips whisper and brush together.

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

Removing Christian evangelism from the African equation may leave the continent at the mercy of a malign fusion of Nike, the witch doctor, the mobile phone and the machete.

Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.

Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.