People want you to play the songs they know. I try not to reflect too much, and I don't really like to focus too much on myself.

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.

A rainbow in the sky or a bird that can fly often create Joy that money can't buy!

When there is complete peace of mind when the outer world is chaotic you will truly be free.

The first thing I've learned is to trust nobody.

When you're cold, don't expect sympathy from someone who's warm.

You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.

At the end of the whole day of working with people you want some privacy.

To know God is to be transformed, and thus to be introduced to a life that could not otherwise be experienced.

I will not date a woman from China, because that is a big red flag.

The First Goal of Conversation: Understanding, not Agreement

I'm a pretty happy camper. Look a little more like Paul Newman, maybe. Haha.