Who can I turn to? Who can I trust?

I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies.

You never know when you're making a memory.

It's OK to not be political unless your country is falling apart.

I get weary of reading about rebirths because we're all growing all the time and it diminishes the life you've lived if you say 'I'm a new person.

In my opinion, the Republican Party is the last on the list to care about the needs of old people and children and poor people.

For the most part, people use God as Santa Claus.

I really enjoy creating music onstage, to participate in making music live.

There is no fear before and no fear after. We give our best.

My worst job was working in the laundry of a nursing home.

You can't break the rules until you know how to play the game.

My mind is a collection of truths that I have extracted from greatest thinkers throughout human history

What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity.

If you don't treat an ingredient and its flavors with respect - if you drown it in oil, for instance - you'll spoil it.

Change before you have to.

There's a bunch of songs that I call B-sides on the record that you could argue could maybe have some potential commercial success with another artist, but for me, they just felt really whack.

Our God is Greater, Our God is Stronger, God, you are Higher than any other, Our God is Healer, Awesome in Power, Our God,Our God.

But I do believe that there's going to be a time where all movies are going to be made in 3D and it's just going to be a given, and that is going to be an exciting time.

You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.

[Kaz] is a great scholar, very funny - a true man of no rank!

My parents did not have any interest in music.