There is this common notion that people are shallow and ignorant until they go out and see the world. I, on the other hand, went out and in comparison realized I was in pretty good standing.

If what you create seems to turn out much stranger than who you are as a person, it's probably because your heart is talking.

I would rather be an artist than a leader. Ironically, a leader has to follow the rules.

Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again.

You can't be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful.

Society tells me to follow my own truth, but I don't let society tell me what to do. If you need someone to tell you that, chances are you're part of the crowd that will move on to the next fashion that comes around.

Never rebel for the sake of rebelling, but always rebel for the sake of truth.

Most people want so desperately to be an individual yet are so easily shaped by the media.

I need not adapt in certain ways. I am in fact but a visitor to this world, an ephemeral gasp within its long, tired history, and, before anything else, a follower of Christ. By this alone I have the power not to shuffle away from the Faith, the power to break loose from these marching-shackles of ongoing cultural and political pretense.