Nothing good comes out of depression..

You must never be afraid to go there..

I start a picture and I finish it..

There is no one lonelier than God!.

Every experience is worth having..

Go ahead and do what you're doing..

I'm getting grumpier all the time..

It is hidden but always present..

I don't love everything I do, and I don't always like how I am in it. I'm not always pleased..

I am not a neoconservative. I am pro-American..

It's not the words but the music that counts..

Dilettantism is the sort of thing one must avoid..

Neither fear nor resist change - cultivate it..

God never violates the trust we put in Him..

Music to me is life. It's what gets me going..

I never tried to kill myself or anything..

We are the sum total of our experiences..

I keep everything that's private private..

You see how wrong I go, how ridiculous I'm making myself in your eyes by keeping on guessing wrong like this! Doesn't that help you to come out with ….

When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous..

No faith is our own that we have not arduously won..