You need a sanctuary. Somewhere where it doesn't feel like it's being tainted by everybody's opinions and other people's money. I think I'm kind of homesick right now.

I really wanted to focus on my songwriting, or songwriting with other people. I wanted to go learn from other people who were really good at the classic, more traditional idea of songwriting.

There's something really precious in that - if you try to tame something that's meant to be wild you wind up jeopardizing the nature of why it exists.

Smile, the worst is yet to come.

I think, being a male singer, I always hate another great male singer's voice before I can love it, unless it's just really far from what I do.

I enjoy writing in a lot of different styles, so I pushed to find that vicious place, or that vulnerable place, and let it exist as intensely as I could.

Everybody's able to pour into each other creatively, and pop into the studio and pop out. It feels like a community. As an artistic community I think it's really cool.

Truth is "the prize of life is death".

I don't have a Twitter account.

jealousy is indeed the shadow of love.

I don't wait for the calendar to figure out when I should live life.

Trust to God to weave your thread into the great web, though the pattern shows it not yet.

Art that imposes conditions - human or otherwise - on the receiver for its appreciation in my eyes constitutes aesthetic fascism.

One wonders how far spiritual and political leaders can genuinely lead us without some degree of mystical seeing and action.

What shames us, what we most fear to tell, does not set us apart from others; it binds us together if only we can take the risk to speak it.

War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.

Man is in his short sojourn on earth equal to God in His eternity.