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I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don't feel that way about anything else.
People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf.
I prefer to work out alone. It enables me to concentrate on the lessons that the Iron has for me.
I spend a lot of time alone so I get a lot done. I don't do much else but work, check things out.
Chaos is hateful. That indeterminate nature of war brings a really unsettling atmosphere to life.
Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don't have to sacrifice.
Step by step, one by one, higher and higher. Step by step, rung by rung, climbing Jacob's ladder.
I didn't join a band. I didn't start a band. I got asked to do it. It kinda happened by accident.
The technical brilliance of Lang Lang and the musical genius to create a masterpiece on the spot.
Maybe if you see me begging on the streets, you might find me doing The Stone Roses the next day.
Well, subconsciously I suppose some things must stick but I'm not influenced consciously by them.
I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
For me, even with my Twitter and Facebook, I'm not on it all the time. I don't Twitter every day.
We all have the opportunity to share the gospel and we should - that's what we were called to do.
If I'm on stage and ministering my heart and pointing people to Christ, then that's all I can do.
I am realizing that there are opportunities everyday to encourage, evangelize, or exhort someone.
Imagine no more tears, no more sorrow, no more pain... and one day we will forever be with Jesus.
I didn't mean to take up all your sweet time... I'll give it right back to you, one of these days
A person would have to change himself in order to be a living example of what he's singing about.
I have not become the artist I believe I am. I want to become a stadium act. I'm not done at all.
I don't want to look back. I want to keep going forward, I still have something to say to people.
I was in band all the way through high school, and I played in jazz competitions all across Iowa.
I've been into 3IOB since 'Battle Cry Under a Winter's Sun.' I've wanted to work with them since.
'My Swan Song' - that song is so depressing but uplifting at the same time, you know what I mean?
Making the 'Sulfur' video continued our quest to make a video different and visually stimulating.
The value of having a computer, to me, is that it'll remember everything you do. It's a databank.
I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels.
I'm so disconnected from an indie-rock community that I am the hermit people used to guess I was.
I don't sit down and say I'm going to write a song about this or that. They are never mapped out.
Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know.
When you start out without a record nobody knows you, but if you have a record it's a lot easier.
The important thing isn't that your technically great, I think it's the power of your expression.
It looks like I'm going to be 40 and life begins at 40 - so they promise. And I believe it, too.
You better stand tall when they're calling you out, don't bend, don't break, and don't back down!
Lord, there's danger in this land, you get witch hunts and wars when church and state hold hands.
We call for the three great stimulants of the exhausted ones, artifice, brutality, and innocence.
The songwriting was almost like something I did while I was waiting for my daughter to come back.
It feels like Radiohead are famous, but that no one knows who we are. Which is brilliant, really.
Banks are kinda cool, you put some money in there. It should be kinda vaguely sexy, but it's not.
It's fun to toy around with press stuff a little bit, because in many ways it's not a real world.
I love performing in front of people, no matter where they come from or what language they speak.
Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien; people there had a lot of money.
As much as I love music, in my mind, photography is what makes me the happiest - that's for sure.
A lot of people who are religious, I think they get lost. They go to church just to go to church.
There are lots of things I really like besides girls. Like pizza. And pranking. And CHUCK NORRIS.
I usually have to be home by 10 o'clock and my mom takes my computer away at 10.30pm every night.
If I had to choose between the band or the friendships, I'd choose the friendships at this point.
We've always had a dark atmosphere to our performances, so it sort of developed along those ways.
We've played every dirty rock-and-roll club in America, and we've been opening acts for everyone.
Beauty has so many forms, and I think the most beautiful thing is confidence and loving yourself.