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

I get nostalgic about having lived in Ames, Iowa, even though being a vegetarian in Iowa is not fun.

Young people like to feel self-righteous, like they're on the right side of things.

I think The Sunset Tree is really the album on which I really learned to trust other musicians, which is so important.

I am a person of high energy. That, and I sit down and I write when I get an idea - I put other things aside.

What's funny is that people think, "Well there has to be something more than wrestling, because wrestling has such an absurd quality to it." But if you tell a love story, people don't ask what else is in there. They say, "Oh, it's just a love story." All stories have many levels, but these ones show their hand and say, "You might want to look a little deeper."

When I became conscious of being a person, when I was very small, I knew that I was from Indiana, but I had never seen Indiana. I was born there, but we moved when I was, like, a year old. I always had a sense of a place that was far away from where I was. I would research it and find out about it and I remember on Christmas morning I used to always call Indiana to find out what the weather was like; to see if it was snowing or not.