Life is beautiful, and terrible, and strange.

The worst thing you can do is to try to cling to something that's gone, or to recreate it.

I enjoyed recording at home. I had the luxury of being able to re-record things.

It's hard to be objective about your own work.

God knows I'm a workaholic.

It makes me happy to hear good music before I go on.

I enjoy being on my own. I feel like I have more room to stretch. I have to go with the flow.

The worst thing you can do is to try to cling to something that's gone or to recreate it.

Surprise yourself everyday with the power of your love. Love endlessly and care profoundly to feel the joy of life deeply.

I don't have any understanding of a human being who doesn't respect the beauty of life and that goes for all creatures that have thoughts, feelings and needs.

If you start to just aim for what the audience wants to hear, you're already hamstrung because you don't have any freedom.

My conviction is that those fights need to be fought right now and can be won. And if in fact we have finite political capital, energy, resources, we need to win those fights.

I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.

This is true faith, a living confidence in the goodness of God.

Beautiful things should belong to beautiful souls.

I believe that free-market principles will solve our healthcare problems.

The United States is in many ways the biggest ghetto in the world.

I'm a big believer in the Christian faith. I don't push it on anyone, though.