That's almost the best part, making the record cover.

I don't hate religion, I try not to hate religion. I hate the terrible things that religion makes people do, and I hate the greed that comes from it.

Eventually, I thought that it's interesting to make some rules for yourself while you're working on one project so it sounds different from the other stuff you do.

I love America, and I love living here.

Sometimes bigger cities, just because there's so much going on, people are a little more jaded.

I wish that I myself did have faith in God, that I had a religion, sometimes. But not always.

I'd like to believe there are people who are good, I know there are good Christians and good people from every faith who just want what's best for humanity.

Licensing can be great. You get money for work that's already done. It's not a horrible thing to me, there's just some things I don't want to soundtrack.

I'm not trying to cut myself off from the rest of the culture by not licensing.

I rely on swearing just to communicate emotion, but I wanted to express the same feelings [in song] without using curse words.

There was the smell of old books, a smell that has a way of making all libraries seem the same. Some say that smell is asbestos.

Don't think about sharks when you are walking on water.

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.

Clouds, leaves, soil, and wind all offer themselves as signals of changes in the weather. However, not all the storms of life can be predicted.

Fly fishing or any other sport fishing, is an end in itself and not a game or competition among fishermen. . . .

Don't you agree, fuzzball?

There are two pains in life. There is the pain of discipline and the pain of disappointment. If you can handle the pain of discipline, then you'll never have to deal with the pain of disappointment.

I have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.

It wasn't that I was shy to go out with him, I just didn't want people with preconceived notions to assume anything about why we were together. I was pretty careful for a while.

Choose well or die. I don’t care which. Just don’t get blood on my coat.