When all my friends insisted that they were feeling jaded, it struck me as an affected pose. To me, everything is always new.

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

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

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.

If we can live well without causing unnecessary harm, why wouldn’t we?

There is no rerun of life. Rejoice while breathe.

And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of these students.

We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.

All actors are on the run from some demon or other.

You can be as you choose to be. It's an act of discipline sometimes, but it can be done.

Eye for eye and the world will go blind.

There are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself.

I think I've been interested in music since I was little.

I don't believe in doing collections anymore.