Anything worth doing in this world is incredibly difficult to do.

Most of the time a spark of beauty or truth will start a fire of a song but fires rarely produce goodness on their own ... you need to control them and put them to work.

If we spend our time obsessing with the future or regretting the past, then we will never live. Tomorrow will always be tomorrow and yesterday cannot be changed.

Hope is not a substitute for pain. Hope is in spite of pain.

If we truly believe in an all-powerful God, then there's going to be beauty and truth to be found in all sorts of different places.

Think deeply about life, it's worth it!

I use to think that the friction was a bad thing. Everything is to ease pain in our society; pain is very much the enemy. And I don't think that's true. Tension is a good thing. To be pulled tight: that's the only way you can make a proper noise on the guitar or violin.