Ten people who are into our music is better than three hundred people who are just standing there.

The whole idea of civilization as an understandable narrative is a bit nuts. It's the most problematic of delusions.

Tour is disgusting, actually, I have no idea how people do it. Your brain would go to rot, unless you really, really worked hard at making sure it didn't.

We're a live band. Some bands write their songs in the studio - we don't do that. We're playing songs on this tour that were written three days before the tour. And it feels good to try these songs.

Live is best. You have movement, and I think we should do as much as we can to put that sense of movement in the recorded music.

An acceptance of your cultural inheritance, and at the same time a dislike of it, is a building block of good art.

These are things that I continue to enjoy speaking about. The woods. Boats. Greeks. I think the real heart of it, is really being in love with these Dutch paintings over the last several years.

Life is the only thing which can never be replaced when lost.

Who you are as a person has a lot to do with who you are as meat

I'd wish you good luck, but you won't need it. You get to write your own story now. Nothing's luckier than that.

It doesn't matter if you please the whole world and don't please Jesus. But if you please Jesus, it doesn't matter whom you displease.

You know that it is only through work that you can achieve anything, either in college or in the world

My mother was so house proud that when my father got up to sleepwalk she had the bed made by the time he got back.

I'll argue anyone into the dust when it comes to facts.

Absolutely, although every congregation will say, you know, every worship leader will say it's vital. It's very important, but again these are, you know, these are different cultural styles.

When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.

Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house, a world; and beyond its world a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for you: build, therefore, your own world.