In actuality it's drum samples in the computer. I don't know, I've just never really dug into that whole technology thing, I feel like it hurts me as a musician a little.

I don't view myself as any kind of celebrity, but we as people are called to do those things and I am just lucky I have a microphone and can reach more people sometimes.

I just like a great song. I just wanted to be this true reflection of what is in my heart and it ended up becoming my life which was kind of surreal, but I do enjoy writing for other people.

I think just as a person, if you say you follow Christ, you have to stand up for the injustices that are going on in the world.

I've certainly collaborated with others for their songs and it's fun. To me, it's exciting to write from a place that doesn't have to be so true to my life and is more just storytelling.

I can't believe I'm in New Zealand, I can't wait to play. It's just so beautiful out here and so awesome.

Musical integrity means a lot to me, personally for myself, I don't really care if other people can't even sing or whatever. For myself I have high standards.

I am the King of biting off more than I can chew.

Civilization begins with distillation

Creative problem solving is not necessarily tantamount to cheating.

Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.

It is not an opinion that "enhanced interrogation techniques" are torture. It is a legal fact. And it is also a legal fact that the president is a war criminal.

How can you spend hours every day trying in small ways to figure out who you are, then have a near-stranger give you a sentence of yourself that says it better than you ever could?

If power doesn't mean that you have the opportunity to work with the people that you love , then you haven't really got any.

If you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well.

We are going to have the candidate of food stamps, the finest food-stamp president in the American history, in Barack Obama, and we are going to have a candidate of paychecks.

There is only one way to get rid of nuclear weapons... use them.