People don't realize how much fun it is to be depressed.

And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.

The words you say never live up to the words in your head.

Be yourself is all that you can do.

I'm not a lyric writer to make statements. What I enjoy doing is making paintings with lyrics, creating colorful images. I think that's more what entertainment and music should be.

And I'm lost behind The words I'll never find And I'm left behind As seasons roll on by

There's something about losing friends, particularly young people, where it's not something that you get over. I don't believe there's a healing process.

She gives the night its dreams.

What do you think Jesus would twitter, 'Let he who is without sin cast the first stone' or 'Has anyone seen Judas? He was here a minute ago.'

Everybody is influenced by someone.

Children should always feel like the adults are living in this world to nurture them, to take care of them, to protect them from any bad thing that might come.

Communists have committed great crimes but at least they have not stood aside like an established society and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water like Pilate.

Great persons are great because of good, strong foundations on which they were able to build a character.

I hope for better things, and I thank God the world is also full of people who want to be genuine and kind.

And when he came to, he was flat on his back on the beach in the freezing sand, and it was raining out of a low sky, and the tide was way out.

A mother's role is God-ordained. Mothers are to conceive, bear, nourish, love, and train. They are to be helpmates and are to counsel with their husbands.

A friend is someone who knows where all your bodies are buried. Because they're the ones who helped you put them there." And sometimes, if you're really lucky, they help you dig them back up.

One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers.

Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.

I learned more about God from the tears of homeless mothers than any systematic theology ever taught me.

Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.