"When I am recording on my own, it's like an oil painting: I can put that on top of that and build up layers. But with the band, it turned out more watercolor: you're leaving white bits of paper exposed, so that nothing is too overworked."

“You will either offend the world and please God, or please the world and offend God.”

Source : "Faith under Fire" broadcast, September 12, 2005.

“Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.”

“But I'm not to be caught with such poor bait! I'm a big fish, I am.”

“As a father, I wanted to make a movie that my kids can love.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com

“It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses.”

Source : Sarah Orne Jewett (1996). “Novels and Stories”

“A winning wave, (deserving note.) In the tempestuous petticote, A careless shoe-string, in whose tye I see a wilde civility,-- Doe more bewitch me than when art Is too precise in every part.”

“I firmly believe that the method which sets theological theories against scientifically ascertained facts, is fatal to the current theology and injurious to the spirit of religion; and that the method which frankly recognizes the facts of life, and appreciates the spirit of the scientists whose patient and assiduous endeavor has brought those facts to light, will commend the spirit of religion to the new generation, and will benefit--not impair--theology as a science, by compelling its reconstruction.”

“Without a plan your kind of just like a dog chasing it's tail, your not getting anywhere.”