“We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I’m going to be alive, I want to be challenged – to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn’t an easy way, but it’s a rewarding way.”

Distance sometimes lets you know who’s worth keeping and who’s worth letting go.

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.

Why see the world, when you got the beach?

Here’s what I think about music and journalism: The most important thing is to just press play.

I’ve always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

As a writer, as a creator, I’m giving you my experiences. But just take what I give you. You ain’t got to pry beyond that.

I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films.

You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible.

Once I catch you in one lie, it makes me question everything you said.

I believe that marriage isn’t between a man and woman; but between love and love.

You can’t think; you just gotta do things.

Go for someone who is proud to have you.

Work hard in silence, let success be your noise.

Work hard in silence, let success be your noise.

If it brings me to my knees, it’s a bad religion.

We are most alive when we are loving and actively giving ourselves because we were made to do these things.

Tragic breaks my heart but its when I feel most alive.

Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you’re pretty much on the way out.

Jesus does not offer to make bad people good but to make dead people alive.

There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.

The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.

In one day, I have times where I’m feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I’m the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

I am grateful for being alive today. It is my joy and pleasure to live another wonderful day.