Spend your energy on things you believe in, and do them honestly and to the best of your ability.

You make beautiful things, You make beautiful things out of the dust

Burnout is what happens when you try to avoid being human for too long.

The noise around us determines how we speak. And how we listen. Just as a conversation suffers in a war zone, art suffers in a culture built on noise. So does our enjoyment of it.

Any religious, philosophical or political idea that doesn't lead one towards love ought to be forsaken

Faith comes from listening to the right stories.

Money is not the root of all kinds of evil. The love of money is. It’s also the root of a lot of bad art.

Art is the body's pronunciation of the soul.

Art, along with all work is the ordering of creation toward the intention of the creator.

Pain is as common as skin, we all experience it. It unites us all. Fortunately, that's not the whole story.

I think I'm just trying to be myself and write songs that are honest. That's what I hear in artist's that I like.

I see a brightportionunder the overhead lightthat shades intodarknessand then into darkerdarknessand I can't see beyond that.

Those who don't try are destine for failure

Let your kindness, your compassion and your listening ear speaks itself.

There will be a game where somebody scores more than Brazil and that might be the game that they lose.

Innovation transforms the useful seeds of invention into widely adopted solutions valued above every existing alternative.

The Republican Party, in many ways, grew up as a reaction to that [ segregation], and a lot of people have misunderstood that.

He has the power to heal and strengthen the soul. He is Jesus Christ.

I just don't get cats. To me, they're a waste of fur.

As an artist, it is great to be able to market yourself to people who don't know you, and people who do.

I can remember hockey. It was my life, my passion. It's what I love the most.