I won't give up swimming, even if it kills me. I love the rhythm of it.

I made one rule for myself, and I really try to live it: Play music you love, with people you love, for people you love. If I can't be that kind of musician, I'll drive a cab.

For me, learning music and playing music and learning your instrument has incredible parallels for our day-to-day existence as human beings. All the ideas of discipline, and having a sense of yourself and translating that to music, that's all part of life's journey.

Creating music based on art and giving away from your spirit is more important than making a living.

You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next.

We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.

It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.

Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.