When I was writing songs, I always thought I'd make more of a career out of the drawings, the comics even more than the music.

Most of the worst things said about me, I've said myself.

I believe in God, and I certainly believe in the devil. There's certainly a devil, and he knows my name.

The sun don't shine in your TV!

Do yourself a favor, become your own savior.

To understand and be understood is to be free.

I never met a girl I didn't meet

Listen up and I'll tell a story about an artist growing old. Some would try for fame and glory; others aren't so bold.

There is a devil, and he knows my name.

I've got something to live for, because I always wanted to be an artist; I always wanted to be famous.

I like to tour, but I prefer to tour in the United States. If I go overseas, I tend to get into trouble.

Given the lethal enormity of sin and the inestimable value of a single soul, a baby in a manger and a man on a cross makes more sense that anything else I will ever be able to possibly imagine.

Whether I'm being influenced by new music that I'm listening to, books I've read, my friends, or my faith, I'm learning all the time.

I think the average American, if they go to the workplace, somebody's next to 'em, they're not poking around trying to figure out what their religious beliefs are.

You have to excuse me because I AM a teenager, so I'm allowed to sound illiterate and make stupid comments like 'I'm not into hard-core feminism.'

There is not first understanding and then action. When you understand, that very understanding is action.

Real persuasion comes from putting more of you into everything you say. Words have an effect. Words loaded with emotion have a powerful effect.

Grace is like a lake of drinkable water right outside your door. But you stay inside and die of thirst.

But Obama is a cool cat. We've seen that before: when he suffered reverses he didn't react immediately. He took a couple of days to react.

At the end of the rainbow waited the pot of gold. But rainbows were made of faint and fragile gossamer-and gold weighed a ton-and since the world began, gold was the reason to do most anything.

Torture must only be hypothetical exception, not US policy.