“Fear is where there is no love. Love is where there is no fear.”

What’s so civil about war anyway?

If you are really into waiting, try holding your breath for Jesus, ’cause I hear the payoff may be that much greater.

I go to movies, go out with friends, go to car shows. I have a zoo.

Many times drugs and alcohol – there’s a technical term that they’re called, emotional suppressants – are the only things that can help a person survive and get through and be able to deal with their pain.

Freddie Mercury and Elton John are, like, two of the biggest Influences in my whole life. And probably always will be.

I write the vocals last, because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level that I had to compete against it.

I discovered I scream the same way whether I’m about to be devoured by a great white shark or if a piece of seaweed touches my foot.

I sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. Its not contrived.

I personally don’t do any hard drugs, because they get in the way of me getting to my base issues, and I’d rather get rid of the excess baggage than find a way to shove it deeper in the closet.

There was a much more self-destructive nature in ‘Appetite.’ It was a going-for-it-at-all-cost thing that worked then.

I guess I like who I am now. I’d just like to have a little more internal peace. I’m sure everybody would.

We take it for granted we know the whole story – We judge a book by its cover and read what we want between selected lines.

I’d just like to say that I have a personal disgust for small dogs, like poodles. I have some serious physical problems with them. Everything about them means I must kill them. I must.

We are made up of two contrasting ideals: Love And Fear. Pick One and Live.

In general I usually don’t really go by or live my life by a clock and outside of touring I don’t really ask anyone else to. It’s not out of lack of respect for anyone or intentional.

I feel I have a responsibility to myself, a responsibility to explain where we’re coming from. Because a song or the performance of a song is a lot like a work of art.

Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

God himself would not permit evil in this world if good did not come of it for the benefit and harmony of the universe.

They tell you to be grateful for what you have. But you are also allowed to be sad for what you have lost.

A blank canvas is still better than a ruined painting.

To one who asked what was the proper time for lunch, he said, “If a rich man, when you will; if a poor man, when you can.”

Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.

How is it they live in such harmony, the billions of stars, when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds?

She is someone who falls in love with imperfections. Like the moon with all her craters, hearts with cracks, and souls with scars. For she knows they carry the deepest and truest love of all deep inside.