I have faith in the justice system and what will happen will happen. I'm just trying to do the right thing.

So many of my friends are still trying to get record deals and I've had one for 10 years now where my only goal is to make the best music I can make. I've been very lucky. I have great faith that I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be and whatever happens is going to be absolutely right for me.

I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them.

And that's the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith is you're trying to get better every day. You're trying to improve.

Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying.

Even in a gleefully negative comic there is optimism although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He keeps going and trying to find some sort of fulfillment regardless of his perpetual failure record. That's a form of hope a form of optimism. Really hokey I know but it's true.

The vast majority of large scale change efforts fail. Which means that the probability that you have actually experienced a failure and your people know that and are pessimistic therefore about trying something again is very high.

I was brought up to believe that there is no such thing as failure as long as I'm trying my best. So I've had a 'blood guts and glory' approach through my whole life.

It's not about failure it's about trying something and risking something for attaining your goal.

My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.