With the project where I'm making something with my own name, my main mission statement is honesty. I never want to hold back from what I'm saying fo….

For one, the Qur'an is considered by Muslims to consist entirely of words spoken by Allah himself..

I find that I end up liking songs if I really have an idea of something I wat to write about-some problem in my life or something I want to work thro….

Faith is always about the Future..

Feeling emotionally connected to a song, and accumulating every bit of the moment's energy to sing out to the audience is what I believe makes a grea….

Most of the songs I write just very directly from my life. I don't have a big imagination. Whenever I tried to write from fantasy, it comes out sound….

Words are where most change begins..

They lifted their faces to the astonishing warmth. The sky arched over them, a pale, clear blue. Lina felt as though a lid that had been on her all h….

You'll be my glass of wine I'll be your shot of whiskey.

I have seen the future! Go back!.

Let's do what we love and do a lot of it..

I tend to be the one that breaks the mold most often, and thus, I tend to be the one with a lot of outtakes, songs that don't make the record..

You'll never learn how to do your endings until you FINISH your endings..

Seeing that the 97's are a democracy through and through, inevitably, some of these tons of songs I write will get vetoed. The first time that happen….

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen..

You always gotta reach the people who feel bad about themselves or insecure about themselves, and I think 'Like 'Em All' was just a perfect song for ….

What I meant was, you looked happier in the pictures..

Yesterday I wrote the majority of a song called 'Burn the Nightclub Down' which was about kind of driving into Cleveland full of dread at the prospec….

Every living being seeks instinctively to complete itself..

God gave me you for the ups and downs and days of doubts..

Money has no religion except itself..