The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.

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.

In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.

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.

The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the reason I would like to be a Christian.