I don't have the genetic make-up of a frontman, but I'm learning how to do it..

The bravest are the tenderest..

There is no beginning too small..

Being alone with yourself is increasingly unpopular..

I've had journals ever since I was really little. Sometimes I write poems and stuff, but for the most part I write down what happens to me during the….

I do like that idea that music can work on two levels, and you only pick up on the second one after a few listens..

Knowledge of death is the beginning of wisdom..

If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love again and you can vicariously through a book..

I work from a personal place, and the work has personal meaning for me..

Of course, every time I end a book, I look down at myself and I'm just the same. I'm always disappointed that I'm just the same, but not enough to ne….

Confess and be hanged..

I like to travel and connect..

Many of my lyrics are about having sex with prostitutes..

Doing it wrong fast is at least better than doing it wrong slowly..

[I]n his presence I thoroughly lived..

Courage is about doing what you're afraid to do..

I am not what one calls a celebrity..

Since I started making music, it had always been for myself..

My house is filled with books, most of which I have read, some of which I intend to eventually get to. I'm always reading at least one work of fictio….

You can’t live for God until you learn how to live because of God..

Smiling is mostly about smiling more..