“The first thing that I do when I come out every night is to look at the faces in front of me, very individually.”

Someday we’ll look back on this and it will all seem funny.

A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.

Those wounds stay with you, and you turn them into a language and a purpose.

I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally – with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.

A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.

Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don’t have answers.

For one kiss, darling, I swear everything I would give. Cause you’re a walking, talking reason to live.

We gotta get out while we’re young, ’cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run.

The one thing I wished for my children is that they’d be readers.

Mister, I ain’t a boy, no I’m a man, and i believe in a promised land.

You can’t be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you’re gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation.

Gonna be a twister to blow everything down That ain’t got the faith to stand its ground. Blow away the dreams that tear you apart. Blow away the dreams that break your heart. Blow away the lies that leave you nothing but lost and brokenhearted.

You can beat the drum so hard that people stop listening. I wanted to use my voice wisely and not expend it wastefully.

Well I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk.

Nobody wins unless everybody wins.

The life of a rock & roll band will last as long as you can look down into the audience and see yourself.

Our greatest battle is to become ourselves, in the face of adversity.

The wisdom of God is reflected in the face of the soul: she will see God as he is, and she will know as she is known.

At some point, everyone faces the same challenge on the journey of self-improvement: you have to fall in love with boredom.

Let a series of happy thoughts run through your mind. They will show on your face.

From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.

There’s more to life than cheek bones.

What is it you want to change? Your hair, your face, your body? Why? For God is in love with all those things and he might weep when they are gone.

Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it’s a challenge to the moral imagination.