“It’s very cool for me to be able to get in an airplane and fly for fourteen hours”

It makes you feel cheap and guilty when you didn’t do a thing in the world to kindle the dull burn in your veins or the sting in your eyes.

I really do like surprises.

But yeah I’m very much a spontaneous guy and it’s sort of hard for me to multi-task and to have all these things going on at once.

I ache with everything in me to make it count, so that when I finally cross the finish line, I’ll hear the words, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant.

I’ve been around many girls who have been super outgoing.

Their stunned silence was always very reassuring.

Cultivates and nurtures an entirely new species of headache.

And a lot of times, they would say to me, “Why are you so quiet? What’s wrong with you?”

I kind of tend to do most of my adventures in my mind.

As I’m so often reminded what a priceless gift my life is

Port Blue’ is my attempt at re-creating the music I want to hear and the emotions I want to feel.”

And show up in a place I never thought I’d ever be and have kids in the same room singing these songs I’d written so far away. To me, that’s so surreal.

You’ve got mountains of your own, I’ll bet on it. Take heart. Be encouraged. Remain steadfast.

Stay in the Word. The moment you start letting go of that, you’re on the road to compromise.

I’m a studio guy. That’s really what I love the most.

Maybe some are so busy waiting, they forget what indescribable beauty is right there in front of them.

It’s not how close can you get to the ground, but how precise can you fly the airplane.

In 1903 the Wright brothers invented airplanes, because in 1902 they took a road trip across the country with their family.

When an airplane’s engines fail, it is not the end of the flight.

No one is ever better off with dictators but there comes a time you know, when you’re on an airplane, they always say, “in case of an emergency oxygen masks will drop down. Put yours on first and then administer help to your neighbor.” We need oxygen right now.

Remember, you fly an airplane with you head, not your hands and feet.

The way the public sees it is this. If we don’t leave, we are idiots. If we do leave but don’t succeed in our mission, we are incompetent. But if we do succeed, it’s because it was easy and anyone could have done it.

The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different psychological organization. . . . A tennis player or a watchmaker or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom.

My ‘thing’ is that I just lie in my immense bed and look out the window at the skyline over Virginia and the sky and the airplanes coming into Reagan. I really love doing that.