It's fun to be able to revisit a song and do something that doesn't really illustrate the song but works tangentially or runs parallel to the song in some way.

There are things that drift away like our endless, numbered days

We all assume the worst the best we can.

I'm one of those people who sort of feeds on music.

I just try to use my own life to build a human song: something that people can relate to in some way. It's not like the psychiatrist's couch or anything.

I like writing in an illustrative, descriptive way. I prefer describing to rather than explaining.

We play some smaller songs larger than they are the record, and vice versa. It took me a while to get used to playing live.

I'm kind of interested in visual communication. For me it's more about suggesting than arguing a point.

I had all these songs lying around. They had all these woman characters, and I thought the idea of the Woman King would be a good way to tie them all together.

It sort of depends on the song. Some of them are pretty easy to write, and others take a while. I do a lot of writing in the morning.

There are good places to play and bad places.

What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare?

Movies are written in sand: applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.

Ultimately, I hope Jesus will save Buddhism, Islam and every other religion, including the Christian religion, which often seems to need saving about as much as any other religion does.

There's an inner feeling you get when you get in a situation to do well in a game. It's hard to explain.

The artist appeals to that part of our being...which is a gift and not an acquisition - and, therefore, more permanently enduring.

It's easy to take the shortcut and use animal skins. But I think animal skins look tired. They're not very innovative. They're old-fashioned. And great fashion should be something new.

I realized in order to be involved in health policy, you really had to understand more than the individual patient that we as physicians, are taught to think about.

Hasty climbers have sudden falls.

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place.

When you're songwriting, it's like talking about your own life experience. When you're with a band, you have to compromise.