What we call human nature, is actually human habit.

On my own I generally have very messy hair, wear jeans and sneakers.

Being part of the natural world reminds me that innocence isn't ever lost completely; we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.

I love playing big rooms. There's nothing like it. It's a power trip.

In the end only kindness matters.

I may not be able to pull on the smallest of holds, but those I can pull on I can pull on all day long.

Live your life with love and bravery and you shall lead a life uncommon.

I consider myself a product of Alaska. The love and the debt that I feel to my home state, you always want your hometown to be the proudest of you.

I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.

Reality is what you believe it to be. It's what you put your thought and energy into, because your hands physically manifest thought. So your world becomes what you feel and what you think.

I don't see the world unless I see it in ink.

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

No valentines from the cats again.

The great thing to learn about life is first not to do what you don't want to do and second to do what you do want to do.

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.

It was selfish what I asked her to do, even if it wound up being the most unselfish thing I've ever done.

The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things.

I play and I've played in heavy bands, but when I write for myself, I don't particularly feel like writing huge rock riffs. It just doesn't work for me and my voice.

Moral power is always more dangerous to an oppressor than political force.

You must never imagine, that just because something is funny, it is not also dangerous.

Visits are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not that, would do nothing.