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.

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.

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.

Young people like to feel self-righteous, like they're on the right side of things.

Prettiness fades after a few years, but elegance only increases with age.

If I take care of my character my reputation will take care of itself.

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!

My art recognizes the human place, the human context - especially in Britain, which is a landscape so worked by people for thousands of years, written, deeply ingrained with the presence of people.

If someone has a boy who gets to age 18 without something [a bone] being fractured, that kid has been overly controlled.

The practice of listening is one of the most mysterious, luminous, and challenging art forms on Earth.

I guess people recognize me, but I'm not a household name. Two out of every five people who come up to me know my name. The one thing I don't want is to be followed by paparazzi.

Life is composed of different inventions.

I'll do whatever it takes for a movie. I don't really care what that is.

The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.