It's frustrating to do albums that you think are worth listening to, but it's just so difficult to cut through.

There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

It strikes me there's a bunch of people in power who have really strong intentions of running the world and adjusting the world to exactly how they see it.

I'd love to have a hit record. I don't believe anyone that says they wouldn't like that.

In certain ways I still feel like I'm finding my way. I feel pretty comfortable playing acoustic guitar and singing, but then I feel pretty good sitting on a reggae groove as well.

I had a very erratic career. I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know?

I like to let the songs speak so that they can go through some kind of rebirth as you play them.

I do like writing songs in a band. When it's rock, it's such a different kind of dynamic, obviously.

I used to drink a lot. I had to stop drinking because it was getting the better of me, and I replaced that with really doing shows.

Sometimes there's a general arc that you want to try and get better the longer you do something.

I just found over the years that it's very hard to change people's perception of what it is that you do.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Christ rises above all things.

When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian.

Salvation cannot be bought with the currency of obedience; it is purchased by the blood of the Son of God.

There are no lessons so useful as those learned in the school of affliction.

When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.

In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available to other experiences.

Cities aren't like people; they live on and on, even though their reason for being where they are has gone downriver and out to sea.

And sometimes I think there isn’t anything to us but our mistakes.

Honestly, I haven't the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.