You feel the weight of the world and you take things in and you are acting out from a place of being pushed and visceral. It's heavy. You can't be there all of the time.

If you make everything really on the nose so everyone knows exactly what you're talking about, it's often not as strong.

Sold my soul to the devil / for nice penmanship. / Now I write real pretty / but I'm starting to regret it.

I don't believe in the myth of the "self made man". Nobody gets through alone.

I used to be so young, how did I get so old?

You can't just look at the side of something that you want to see. You have to look at the whole round object and understand that there are parts of it that you don't like.

I think that's why art prevails: because it helps people in a fairly intangible, magical way feel more connected to each other.

I think the future and the past are equally hypothetical.

Sometimes I just don't have time to wait for the muse to come, so I've developed things to force the muse to come back.

I'm influenced in a million different ways by a million songs that I've heard and digested.

The idea that things intrinsically were just better is so stupid to me because they never were. It's all relative.

Glow with the flow.

Jesus himself refers to himself as light, illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding, wisdom

Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library.

Of beer, an enthusiast has said that it could never be bad, but that some brands might be better than others.

Lies are infinite in number, and the truth so small and singular.

In short, I conceive that great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things, and by their giving too much for their whistles.

Design your financial future in every respect, and then make a plan to achieve it.

Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.

A great many people are trying to make peace, but that has already been done. God has not left it for us to do; all we have to do is to enter into it.

It is not great talents or great learning or great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God.