Kayfabe is kind of a code. To break kayfabe is to let people know that the punch was not real and that the match was scripted.

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

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

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

I really love Durham more than any place I've ever been; some small towns can be really provincial and strangling, but Durham is the best city in the world.

Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I dont feel everybody can connect to.

Everybody is in various states of needing to transcend something. I believe in mental health care, but when we call people "crazy," we exclude them from our circle.