The writing about what you know thing was a huge one. Not worrying so much about what people think. Just writing for myself and the band is enough.

I'm still writing songs but leaving them a lot more open and not trying to control every nuance of it.

It's just like I get this identity crisis: my body doesn't want to write, my mind doesn't want to write. Nothing about me wants to write, but I force myself to sit there and try. Nothing happens.

Obviously I attach myself so much to my songwriting. If I didn't attach myself to that being my sole attribute, then I would be fine with those.

I'm just online too much. I drink too much. A lot of bad things.

I wasn't being critical of myself in the way I can normally be, and I was letting myself follow through with stuff. It was like a prolonged spontaneity.

I feel like I'm adapting to society. I went feral a little bit. I found that when I would get back to the city, if there was any second-guessing about stuff, it would happen.

You will see romance everywhere when your heart is dancing with love and joy.

During courtship, guarding each other's purity and refraining from intimacy are the acts of lovemaking.

Charity: begins at home and remains there. When it goes out, it's because it wants to brag about itself

Blood of the world, time staunchless flows; The wound is mortal and is mine.

The opportunist thinks of me and today. The statesman thinks of us and tomorrow.

Are not beauty and delicacy the same?

It is only people with a sense of personal responsibility who can help others. It is only people with a sense of personal responsibility who can be helped in a lasting way.

We have to keep asking ourselves: 'What does it all mean? What is God trying to tell us? How are we called to live in the midst of all this?' Without such questions our lives become numb and flat.

I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers.

There is no lapse in His character or inconsistency in His nature. Our God is everything he says He is… for now and all eternity.