I don't think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best.

Human's can't live in the present as animals do; they just live in the present. But human's are always thinking about the future or the past.

I don't know why I write really depressing songs. I'm a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure I'm about normal.

Now you wear your skin like iron

I don’t envision a long life for myself. Like, I think my life will run out before my work does, y’know? I’ve designed it that way.

What I do is between me and the Lord, to examine and possibly alter the state of grace in which I live, and thereby the state of grace of anybody who listens.

Now the dark air is like fire on my skin, And even the moonlight is blinding