No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.
And when our sun explodes and we are all destroyed, we'll be rocks and chunks of I am not sure what, and maybe we'll rain down on somewhere else.
I don't know what you believe in. I believe we just stop. Because if we move on to an afterlife, any kind of afterlife, that means there will be other people there. I'm tired of the chit chat. Oh, that is a handsome boy. He takes after his grandfather. Did they change the breakfast again? It tastes different to me. For Eternity? No thanks.
Happiness is not a house where you can live. (But it is a house you can build. )
Death is not the end. Death is an ocean on all sides of our lives. Deep and dark and cold, and anything but empty.
If we couldn't carry our dead inside us, we would be empty.
Listening to music that I hate calms me down.
A lot of singers don't really know who they are. They have this massive insecurity and this massive ego and they are sort of pulled between both. I mean, why do you want a lot of people to look at you all the time and listen to you? There is something going on there, there is sort of need to express and attention. It's not just ego, it's some sort of complex thing and sometimes you create characters to say something you want to say and then you just throw yourself into that.
Everybody is sitting around saying, 'Well, jeez, we need somebody to solve this problem of bias. ' That somebody is us. We all have to try to figure out a better way to get along.
They're always looking forward to going places they're just coming back from, or regretting doing things they haven't yet done. They say hello when they mean goodbye.
Music and books were my inspiration too. I read avidly as a kid. And that's the beautiful thing about books and music and even movies, is that you can actually escape. You can go into other worlds.