I was a grill cook at McDonalds for a little bit. I did landscape for a little bit. I played a lot in the bar scene, I played countless sets of acoustic songs in that arena.

I've never needed government to hold my hand.

I rarely drink from the bottle, but I'll smoke a little weed.

I sold my soul to the devil in L.A. He said 'sign your name here on the dotted line and your songs they all will play.'

I sold my soul to the devil in L.A

Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?

Only a moral education based on free inner discipline can bring to bear a salutary action and lead to a true morality.

Fifteen years was a long time to be stranded anywhere, particularly somewhere as mind-boggingly dull as Earth.

Religion is a disease, but it is a noble disease.

I go on the Internet and look at old pictures of myself, because it is the best reminder of how far I have come and where I do not want to be.

After rejection - misery, then thoughts of revenge, and finally, oh well, another try elsewhere.

Kids are a great excuse for you to stop acting like one.

What is sad is not to be able to do today what you have done in your youth. But what is good is to remember that - when you were able - you did it to the best of your ability.

Male initiation does not move toward machoism; on the contrary, it moves toward achieving a cultivated heart before we die.

Christian life is not realized in developing the personality or in shaping human community and somehow changing the world but in turning away from the world and becoming free of it.