I write for myself; I release the albums to connect with everyone else.

All of our heartfelt lies Are not enough this time

I was praying that you and me might end up together. It's like wishing for rain as I stand in the desert, but I'm holding you closer than most, 'cause you are my heaven.

Beautiful things never last. That’s why fireflies flash.

I like to talk while I'm on stage. It makes the show more personal. With that said, it's got to stay within reason or it's annoying.

I think it's funny how excited people can get about things I say that don't have anything to do with music. I made a disparaging comment about McDonald's on Twitter once and people flipped out on me.

Redundancy is my favourite business strategy.

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.

My most cryptic, strange songs might be my most personal, but that isn't how people are going to receive them, because they don't know the code.

You have to keep evolving.

There is no reason to believe that the Holy Spirit ever leaves awakened sinners, only as they leave the truth of God for some error or sin.

You need a bad operation. Gimme the scissors, hammer, flame.

If man reflects on the changes and transformations which follow one another like wave after wave and their rapidity, he will despise everything which is perishable.

I think most people who call themselves relativists are not, in practice.

In Anglo-Saxon countries the prostitutes look as if they purveyed, along with sin, the attendant pains of hell.

It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you.