My audience is going to die before I do.

Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got shot.

Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.

The modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top

My lips are chapped from the winds of change.

While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought you could try.

History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.

What are you hiding? No one ever asks that.

I no longer drink nearly as much as I used to but, still, my motto is Sine coffea nihil sum. Without coffee, I'm nothing.

You know, it's always good to have a synonym just for variety.

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.

There is no intrinsic virtue to law and order unless 'law' is equated with justice and 'order' with the discipline of a people satisfied that justice has been done.

In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.

I definitely learned never to fall in love in high school because it just takes over your brain.

My sound is super hybrid; the acoustic sounds are there and the electronic sounds are there.

God gives enabling grace to go on.

Take a month and show some kindness for the folks who thought that blindness was an illness that affected eyes alone.

What you do for a living is not be creative, what you do for a living is ship.

There’s nothing like real love. Nothing.