Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

I felt rich when I was 20 years old and my wife was paying my bills. Just being in a band, I've always felt blessed.

Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people.

God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives. God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them.

Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.