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Your skin's so fair its not fair
Go to the poor there you will find God.
I was a lusty kid who loved Tennessee Williams.
I'm unqualified to do anything other than music.
It's not enough to do good. It must be done well.
The keys are in my pocket and they rattle you awake.
I have a great band. Oh, man. I'm so happy about them.
I wish I had a gentle mind and a spine made up of iron.
I just love playing guitar, so that's what I'm going to do.
Life can be challenging and sad... but music is the easy part.
The poor have much to teach you. You have much to learn from them.
I've always been pretty ravenous about pop culture, highbrow and lowbrow.
It is from your hands that Our Lord, in the person of the sick, seeks relief.
I was always just kind of obsessed with guitar, even before I started playing.
Honey the party went away quickly, but thats the trouble with ticking and talking.
Guitar is just something I can do. So much of it now is muscle memory, just instinct.
Musically, I have more things in common with tons of bands that have no female members.
I grew up in Texas and we used to go to Padre Island, eight hours in the car down to the beach.
In a really great way, you simultaneously try to take up as little and as much space as possible.
Oh but I'd pay anything to keep my conscience clean.I'm keeping my eyes on the the exit sign. Steady now.
Lord, help me to make time today to serve you in those who are most in need of encouragement or assistance.
I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians.
Whirlyball is only the most awesome sport on the planet! It's like bumper cars plus lacrosse meets basketball.
I only listen to my own music when I'm playing an hour-and-half set each night. I don't put it on recreationally.
Let us love God my brothers, let us love God. But let it be with the strength of our arms and the sweat of our brow.
I've been so entwined with technology since I was about 15, recording myself and multitracking and producing things on my own.
Fashion, for me, is anything that's aesthetic and beautiful. Art, food, film. It's something that I appreciate and really like.
All you can do is make something that you like and feel proud of and then just hope for the best and try to get out of its way.
No matter what others say or do, even if the wicked succeed, do not be troubled: commit everything to God and put your trust in him.
I read the signs,I got all my stars aligned,My amulets, my charms,I set all my false alarms,So I'll be someoneWho won't be forgotten.
Generally my day-to-day is pretty much the same. Just busy and working and on tour. And trying to put on the best show possible every night.
I guess trying to throw my body into the guitar is so natural for me that I don't even know how to explain it. I can't imagine life without it.
I've been watching a lot of Joan Didion interviews on YouTube. I love her. My drummer has gotten me into looking at Terence McKenna interviews.
It is absolutely necessary, both for our advancement and the salvation of others, to follow always and in all things the beautiful light of faith
I think in some ways, it can do a listener a disservice to explain a song. I think I'd rather leave a little room for people to put themselves in it.
The affairs of God are accomplished little by little and almost imperceptibly. The Spirit of God is neither violent nor hasty. He does all things in His time.
Leaden trumpets spit the soot of power they say"I'm on your side when nobody is, cause nobody is.Come sit right here and sleep while I slip poison in your ear
I remember looking at the sky and thinking that the universe is so big and it's all chaos. I call it 'the dark fear.' At any moment, the dark fear could come in.
I love Robert Fripp. You know what I really appreciate about Robert Fripp? He always dresses appropriately for the occasion. When he's on stage, he's a Dapper Dan.
I wrote 'Actor' all on the computer. I didn't touch any instruments until I was in the studio. So while I had all these ornate arrangements, I didn't have any songs.
Extend your mercy towards others, so that there can be no one in need whom you meet without helping. For what hope is there for us if God should withdraw His Mercy from us?
To be honest, because there's loud music in my ears probably three hours a day, between sound check and the show, I listen to podcasts more than I listen to music on the road.
Charity is the cement that unites communities to God and individuals to each other so that he who contributes to the union of hearts in a community binds it indissolubly to God.
I think a lot of people who want to be musicians terrify their parents because they don't have a living example of it in their families, and I did. So I always knew that it was possible.
The Lilith Fair thing was Bummer Town - hey, hop aboard the marginalizing train. I guess you had people come out of that and have careers, but I think there was a pretty intense backlash, too.
And if I'm honest about it, I was obsessed with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. This is like '92, right in the throes of Soundgarden and Pearl Jam and Nirvana. I think I probably wanted to be Kurt Cobain.
My dad used to love Steely Dan, the Stones, Jethro Tull and all that. There was always Steely Dan going in my dad's car, but I remember The Royal Scam in particular because it has 'Kid Charlemagne' on it.
However great the work that God may achieve by an individual, he must not indulge in self-satisfaction. He ought rather to be all the more humbled, seeing himself merely as a tool which God has made use of.
While Jesus is saving, I'm spending all my daysin backgrounds and landscapes with the languages of saints.While people are spinning like toys on Christmas day,I'm inside a still life with the other absentee.
Outpouring of affection for God, of resting in his presence, of good feelings towards everyone and sentiments and prayers like theseare suspect if they do not express themselves in practical love which has real effects.