It was a beautiful letdown, the day I knew, that all the riches this world had to offer me, will never do.

I'm not really one to be on camera, I'd rather be writing songs.

I often use music as a handle for very emotionally explosive substances: love, sex, God, fear, doubt, politics, the economics of the soul - these are daunting thoughts in the back of my mind that I rarely visit without the safety gloves of song.

Sometimes the things that hurt are worth the pain.

Please be slow to judge ‘brothers’ who have a different calling.

Faith, hope, and love remain. But the greatest of these is love.

It's really hard to fit a complex idea into a 3-minute pop song. And when you're dealing with issues that you're passionate about, usually they have various levels. And within a poem, you can get around the issue of space, and in a song the same way, by simply leaving holes and alluding to what you're talking about.