When it comes to rock music, I'm not much of a player, but I do have entry-level chops. I'm more knowledgeable as a listener, and Revival gave me a way to write about rock and roll without being preachy or boring.

Clear communication between selves - the surface self and the deep self - is the enemy of self-doubt. It slays confusion.

There had never been a shortage of fools in the world

An idea is like a cold germ: sooner or later someone always catches it.

God turned out to be a bunch of bad little kids playing interstellar Xbox. Isn't that funny?

Belief in the supernatural or belief in wild talents like precognition and telepathy and telekinesis and things like that, it seems to me that belief in those things is just very, very freeing.

God always punishes us for what we can't imagine.