There are always fights in a band. People get together for these reunion shows after 20 years, and they play a couple shows and break up again.

I don't surround myself with anybody, really. I have friends, but I'm kind of an isolationist now. I kind of work on my own.

Artists have been getting ripped off since the beginning of time, probably. But on the other hand, it might be nice to write songs. We certainly could.

I don't want to change the way I write my songs, I like the way I write my songs, so I keep 'em the same. I'd like to write more country songs, but other than that, I'm pretty good where I am.

never say amen in church if they'recapping off a prayer about you.

To be evenminded is the greatest virtue.Wisdom is to speakthe truth and actin keeping with its nature.

I've only been in long-term relationships. I've never really dated myself.

Impact is rewarding. Mattering makes us happy.

As long as a branch of science offers an abundance of problems, so long it is alive; a lack of problems foreshadows extinction or the cessation of independent development.

In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.

I have been casting shadows all my life without caring about how deeply they stain my soul.

Young people have so many letdowns that people don't realize.

It is as absurd to expect members of philosophy departments to be philosophers as it is to expect members of art departments to be artists.

People try new things all the time. By now, the people who succeed have to be very sophisticated.

I've often thought, I'm nobody. Why would God answer my prayer? But God's not impressed by eloquence; he's impressed by our longing for him.