"We may not live in the past, but the past lives in us."

“I refuse to be a doormat to any man. I will never allow anyone to push me around. I am my own mistress.”

“What defines us as Christians is not most profoundly that we have come to know him but that he took note of us and made us his own.”

“Play, intrinsically rewarding, doesn't cost anything; as soon as you put a price on it, it becomes, to some extent, not play.”

“I don't have anything against God. Far from it. But I don't understand Him. And I don't trust a lot of the people that go around claiming that they're working in His best interests. Faeries and vampires and whatnot -- those I can fathom. Even demons. Sometimes, even the Fallen. I can understand why they do what they do. But I don't understand God. I don't understand how he could see the way people treat one another, and not chalk up the whole human race as a bad idea”

“Sometimes being an artist is a real drag. It can be incredibly bureaucratic.”

“Political liberty is nothing else but the diffusion of power.”

“When you're sequencing a record, you want the listener to stick with it from beginning to end, and in order to do that, you really have to map out the journey from the first song to the last.”

“He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the veil that a man can be guilty of.”