When things are really great, it just means everything's in it's place.

Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what's important to you, does not make you weaker.

But I can't confront the doubts I have. I can't admit that maybe the past was bad, and so, for the sake of momentum I'm condemning the future to death so it can match the past.

I don't consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.

It's funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can't even understand, which drug addiction is the perfect negative example of.

There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.

It really doesn't matter to me what people say about me anymore.

Everyone's just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, and I think that for me, it's a huge antidote to that to have a concept album.

I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.

Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won't put these futures back together. All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn't be enough to bring me back to zero.

The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.

Nothing softens the heart like a song.

To be saved is to believe in one's own courage.

You're torn between wanting to be closer and wanting to push me away, " he said. "So I vote for closer. I'll always vote for closer.

A novel is a static thing that one moves through a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.

I do feel like the hardest thing is to do something simple and tap into whatever remains of our common language rather than cultivating your own willfully esoteric vocabulary.

The band's filter, but playing live is a lot of fun.

If democracy is a means rather than an end, its limits must be determined in the light of the purpose we want it to serve.

One may receive the information but miss the teaching.

Meditation and prayer have withstood the test of time. They work today as perfectly as they did for those who first practised and perfected them.

No matter what it is, if you aren't happy striving for it, you won't be happy achieving it.