Opera combines pretty basic theater and poetry, but the storyline itself is actually quite poetic and, after some digital research, taking that actual content and seeing it as undeniably poetic.

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.

Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word - heed well! - this mine and thine.

If I'm not in love with the script, there's nothing. It doesn't matter what you give me. It has to start with the script.

Players are ready to play, We're not on strike. It's a lockout.

The hardest part is the grueling work of constantly being wrong.

There's a lot of falses - out there and if I take up for myself, it's a bad thing. Sometimes you just got to live with it, but for the most part, I'm like look, I don't want no problems with nobody.

All the truly deep people have at the core of their being the genius to be simple or to know how to seek simplicity

I finally had a ship tattooed to my chest. I wanted something on it.

We can open our hearts to God, but only with Divine help.

Don't be afraid to be a loner but be sure that you are correct in your judgement.

The discussion about food doesn't make any sense without discussion at the same time of land, land use, land policy, fertility maintenance, and farm infrastructure maintenance.