I wrote short stories when I was a teenager, but they weren't any good and I kinda knew it.

You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.

There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.

Good things never last, bad things never die.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

I am at a place in my life where the more like a cave I can make my surroundings, the happier I am.

I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.

It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.

A bands first albums usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.

Great future through ignorance often ends in great regret because God often times gives us what we need in a package we do not want.

Two spectrums generate our thoughts … one comes from fear and the other from love. Every emotion in between starts at one of those two places.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.

Miracles sometimes occur but one has to work terribly hard for them.

In fact, other people create for lack of power. I, on the other hand, do not need a work: I live.

The best thing about baseball is there's no homework.

I would love to shoot on film, but you can't really shoot a lot of footage on film, and you can't print a lot of it.

Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth, truths are found only in the depths of thought.

We've seen what can be accomplished when we use 50% of our human capacity. If you visualize what 100% can do, you'll join me as an unbridled optimist about America's future.

When we get the inspiration from Heave to do something. We do it now. We don't procrastinate.