One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

When you know where somebody is, you know the most important thing about them.

I grew up in Southern California, so the whole concept of a local music history is still kinda novel to me.

You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.

People will complain that they don't want to wait around for lightning to strike, but why not? If you invest yourself in chance, the potential for disappointment is pretty low.

The South actually has a very strong tradition of activism. The civil rights movement came from down here! It was black activists demanding that their voices be heard. People say these are red states. No they're not!

The fact that somebody's telling you a story about people who didn't exist doesn't make the experience of the story any less real in your heart and mind.