My son, who sees me almost every day of his life, will look at me and go, "I know that dude! I like that dude!" It's incredibly affirming.

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.

Creativity is an amazing human characteristic, which is more connected with curiosity than with knowledge.

O wad some power the giftie gie us to see some people before they see us.

Imagination decides everything.

I have a theory that Southern madhouses are full of gifted women who were stifled.

You might be a redneck if you hammer bottle caps into the frame of your front door to make it look nice.

Choosing a path means having to miss out on others

You weren't able to talk sense into him?" Well, we kind of tried to kill each other in a duel to the death." I see. You tried the diplomatic approach.

He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.

There is something in humility which, strangely enough, exalts the heart, and something in pride which debases it.

I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.