It's impossible to be content all the time - you have to learn to be content in places where you're unhappy and owning your emotions, whatever they are.

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.

Whisper to the flashing water your real name, write your signature in the sand, and shout your identity to the sky until it answers to you in thunder.

I love the mixture that's in me. It makes me me. And that's why it's such a shame that people waste energy in denying who they are.

I also tried to avoid doing obvious dance records.

Every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear on this planet; and that is about three billion years.

Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.

Let’s just put it this way: if you think there’s a thing – anything – women didn’t do in the past, you’re wrong.

The length of a man's outspread arms is equal to his height.

Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.

Its tempting to work more than 60 hours a week and sacrifice sleep, not move, and eat bad foods as they are convenient. But this comes with a cost.