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.

What you do with your life is ascribing more to what you invest your time in. If you spend a lot of time on your phone, you're ascribing more worship to that. Anything can become, by that definition, some form of idol or deity or ultimate worth in your life.

I think that's the beauty of live music - creating from the destruction.

Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love another.

The unasked questions are the most dangerous to answer.

There are tears that shine like a smile, sobbing like a sunrise for the truth.

If comparison is the thief of joy, then our culture is being robbed blind.