Hope is not a substitute for pain. Hope is in spite of pain.
There are tears that shine like a smile, sobbing like a sunrise for the truth.
Happiness is like peeing in your pants. Everyone can see it, but only you can feel the warmth.
Music is admitted under the skin without permission.
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.
The biggest problem facing our world today is a lack of hope and a lack of meaning. [It's] basically just a postmodern world in which there is no right or wrong, no better or worse.