I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes.

When we talk about the decline of the American family, I think we have to go back to the Industrial Revolution.

I always thought the Bible was more of a salad thing, you know, but it isn't. It's a chocolate thing.

When something happens to you, you have two choices in how to deal with it. You can either get bitter, or get better.

What we really need is somebody who loves us so much we don’t worry about death, or about [anything for that matter]… We need this; we need this so we can love other people purely and not for selfish gain, we need this so we can see everybody as equals, we need this so our relationships can be sincere, we need this so we can stop kicking ourselves around, we need this so we can lose all self-awareness and find ourselves for the first time, not by realizing some dream, but by being told who we are by the only Being who has the authority to know, by that I mean the Creator.

The mountains themselves call us into greater stories.

Most great art is created when the artist feels they are channeling something rather than trying to communicate something.