Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.
Music can change the world because it can change people.
Stop asking God to bless what you're doing. Find out what God's doing. It's already blessed.
Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it
Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.
Feelings are much stronger than thoughts. We are all led by instinct, and our intellect catches up later
Dream up the kind of world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
Perspective is the cure for depression.
Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.
Even though I'm a believer, I still find it really hard to be around other believers. They make me nervous, they make me twitch. I sorta watch my back.
The right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well.
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
At a certain point, I just felt, you know, God is not looking for alms, God is looking for action.
Whenever I see grace, I’m moved.
I love America and I hate it. I'm torn between the two. I have two conflicting visions of America. One is a kind of dream landscape and the other is a kind of black comedy.
It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
The human heart is greedy; it will use religion, color, or any other excuse to justify its greed. Blame the human heart.
In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim
Where you live should not determine whether you live, or whether you die.
Laughter is eternity if joy is real.
For all that "I was lost, I am found," it is probably more accurate to say, "I was really lost, I'm a little less so at the moment.
We're starting our own religion at last. The Order of Frisbeetarians. We believe that when you die, your soul ascends to a rooftop and you can never get it back.
I'm a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I've been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness.
I wish to begin again on a daily basis. To be born again every day is something that I try to do. And I'm deadly serious about that.
Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
I'm never nervous when I go to meet heads of state. I feel they should be nervous, because they are the ones who'll be held accountable for the lives their decisions will impact the most.
We can't fix all problems but we must fix the ones we can
There is a root arrogance in any writer; a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them.
