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

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

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.

Young people like to feel self-righteous, like they're on the right side of things.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then...do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Never let your goals or convictions get in the way of living your life. It's not about who dies with more, it's about who lived the most.

But grief changes. It softens, adapts its shape to become a part of you. That kind of sorrow never gets any lighter, but you grow accustomed to the weight as you carry it on.

Fresh is best.

He did not consider public opinion to be accurate at long range.

Hate is contagious. A few seconds after Donald Trump has told me something hateful, somebody else repeats it. He has legitimized what people only dare say in their kitchens and bedrooms.

[I]t seemed as if the streets were absorbed by the sky, and the night were all in the air.

For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

I've learned to sell my music, I've learned to direct, I've written screenplays... All of this fulfilled my artistic needs but also put food on the table.

But I also live to perform and I've been performing my whole life, whether it's been in sports or you know in band or with my singing.