Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but don't let anyone know it.

I could never be a country person, sitting around trees trying to write a song. I would rather be in the middle of society, whether it's growing or crumbling.

I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.

Refusing to ask for help when you need it is refusing someone the chance to be helpful.

People are strange. We're all morticians. Hey, what's on TV?

The most important thing to a lot of people, is to belong to something that's hip or whatever. To be a part of something that's not society, just a clique.

When you become tired of fitting in, is when you truly become yourself

There's more to light than the opposite of dark.

Never mind a world that can't see past brutality.

Sometimes you want to run away Sometimes you think you do But you never had a dream like this before And you don't want to ask for more Sometimes you leave a mark Before you know the score

I think bands, when they're on the road, they keep their sanity by developing an internal sense of humor.

Nourish the body, nourish the soul. Punish the body, punish the soul.

World's biggest Miracle OR Magic is Zero.

We need to get our minds right, because right now we are behaving as if we are out of our right minds.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

The reality of the writer's world is that you set yourself up for future disappointment with every success that you deliver because you end up raising your audience's expectations.

If one took a role with the intention of, "I'll show them what I can do!," then it's not going to be good because the ego is going to just block everything.

I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.

People shouldn't be allowed to get married until it's too late to have kids.

Wisdom never learned silence, and it is most annoying when least wanted.

Woe is me. Me thinks I'm turning into a god.