The possibility of disaster remains horrific to me. Like when you know everything's about to go wrong in a way that's not controllable or knowable.

You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.

There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.

Good things never last, bad things never die.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

I am at a place in my life where the more like a cave I can make my surroundings, the happier I am.

I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.

It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.

A bands first albums usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.

Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as he was, people just give up and go away.

Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.

What you hope for determines what you live for. What you hope for determines WHO you live for. Hope misplaced can devastate you.

Then a little voice in him said, Let go, let go, let go

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.

The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.

Hello I'm John Morrison and you can bounce a quarter off my abs.

On the football field I keep my emotions tied up inside. But when I'm with family, I let them out.

You used to be fly, but you crashed your plane.

Feel all you can, let your heart speak and guide you. Don't be afraid of the love deep inside you.