Growing up, my next door neighbor was my best friend and an only child too..

There is a deep and undeniable sadness in all this: whenever we see the dawn of an eternal good that will never be overcome by evil – an evil that is….

Being alone with yourself is increasingly unpopular..

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..

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

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 have an eight-year-old child, and I literally can't wrap my mind around the kind of grief that must be felt when you lose a child..

[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..

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

One of the saddest sights of the slums is to see the thrifty wife of the working man, with her rosy brood of children, used to country air and sunshi….

Smiling is mostly about smiling more..

All in all, death is something like marriage..

We must not be anything other than what we are..

A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea; most people, after they are about eleven or twelve, quite ….