Music of today is not even in the same building as music from the '70s.

If you only had an hour to sum your whole life up, would you spend that hour saying that an hour ain't enough?

I'm lonely, but everyone is lonely So at least I know I'm not alone.

Everyone's the same. All brains are contained by their reality frame and chained to the terrain that they're trained not to change and once you see what I've explained you've hit the jackpot.

Time taught me how to see every second as heaven, even though they're perfectly disguised as hell.

It's so fun to be in love... or so I've heard, The meaning has no feeling even though I understand the word...

I refuse to let past bruises cover the light. It ain't all good, but it's all good enough so I know I'm alright

I'm here for you in the same way that you're here for me, each person is an intricate piece of infinity.

Empathy is the poor man's cocaine, and love is just a chemical by any other name

We're all born into this river without knowing how to swim, And eventually we learn how to keep this water under our chins

A pessimist is just an optimist with experience.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others but it also becomes richer and happier.

And what's a butterfly? At best He's but a caterpillar drest.

Lost! Lost! Lost! Better a whole world on fire than a soul lost! Better every star quenched and the skies a wreck than a single soul to be lost!

Musicians have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet.

If you enroll as one of God's people, then heaven is your country and God your lawgiver.

One should not search for anything behind the phenomena. They themselves are the message.

The resurrection is God's way of getting our attention.

I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra.

With every exertion, the best of men can do but a moderate amount of good; but it seems in the power of the most contemptible individual to do incalculable mischief.