There is a difference these days between who's making the music and buying the music, in terms of the way that they think, grew up, and their perspective. It's become much more diverse.

There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.

God is a book I can no longer read.

I alternate between thinking of the planet as home - dear and familiar stone hearth and garden - and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners.

My mother gave me my drive but my father gave me my dreams.

I have a feeling that I'm going to be blamed for everything that's ever happened.

When characters change on screen, it makes you feel better about yourself. You think, 'Oh I change too, I'm constantly becoming a better person.'

We must be prepared to keep pace with our leaders, stride for their every lengthened stride.

If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.

Real responsibility means to live and speak in such a way as to help peoples faith and not to disturb it.

The world is a nettle; disturb it, it stings. Grasp it firmly, it stings not.