The hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in drops of rain.

Softly the evening came /with the sunset/.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

Behind the clouds is the sun still shining.

Into each life some rain must fall.

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.

I'd realized that in writing happiness is useless-without suffering there is no story.

Who pleasure gives, Shall joy receive

The most uncommon form of intelligence is common sense.

Though he’d never know for sure what had happened to them, his mind was super talented at imagining the absolute worst.

A money-lender--he serves you in the present tense; he lends you in the conditional mood; keeps you in the conjunctive; and ruins you in the future.

I believe in God; I'm not saying I'm highly religious.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

My music is a very personal reflection of me, whereas, acting a role, thats a reflection of another character.

Don't ask for respect. Earn it.

We allow the sonic qualities themselves to develop their own momentum. It's a kind of humbling experience to put the sound first instead of the statement.