I love tattoos. And mine symbolise who I really am. I have a Samurai on my left arm. At a subconscious level, I connect to this warrior and model myself on his discipline, skills and honour. There is also a tribal tattoo and a Chinese symbol of faith. I have seen a lot of people getting tattoos just because it’s a trend.

New York is definitely ready for the word of God.

Punk is musical freedom. It’s saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster’s terms, ‚nirvana‘ means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that’s pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

God never promised us a trouble-free life.

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.

I’m no natural beauty. If I’m gonna have any looks at all, I’m gonna have to create them.

He chose to honor us with His priesthood. So we honor Him by honoring His priesthood – both its power and those who bear it.

Everyone calls me Bruno; they don’t ever call me Peter – that was just my government name.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

I ain’t here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I’m just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that’s the way yall need Jesus.

Clothing & fashion are kind of my security blanket, almost.

If tomorrow I want to release a rock album or I want to release a bachata album, nobody can tell me anything – why can’t I?

I’m going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.

I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.

Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don’t have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

I’ve been studying the Bible for a long time. I remember that after the first five years or so of diligently studying the Word, I didn’t feel like I had made any progress. There were a lot of things in my life that were out of order, and I didn’t feel like I was getting anywhere.

Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.

If you will do what God tells you to do, there’s no person on Earth and no devil in Hell that can keep you from having what God wants you to have.

I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.

I go through a lot of depression, and I know other people do, too, but I have an outlet that so many people don’t. If you have that inside of you and can’t get it out, what do you do?

I always say this about my music, and music in general: Music is like a time capsule. Each album reflects what I’m going through or what’s going on in my life at that moment.

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you’re a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.

Through the ages, many of His children have had access to the blessings of the gospel, but many more have not.

A person who is truly authentic doesn’t need to play a role in life, we think, but can simply be him – or herself.

The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.

My thing is this; if I’m sick enough to think it, then I’m sick enough to say it.

For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Faith… must be enforced by reason… when faith becomes blind it dies.

There are so many things we have to overcome in this life with Jesus, His work on the cross. He’s paid the ultimate price for us, so I’m proud to be a child of God.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

Life isn’t fair, but God is.

I believe in God – not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it’s hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

I don’t tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.

When you draw or paint a tree, you do not imitate the tree; you do not copy it exactly as it is, which would be mere photography. To be free to paint a tree or a flower or a sunset, you have to feel what it conveys to you: the significance, the meaning of it.

Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

I am a Catholic because I choose to be a Catholic. And then I go to the Mass because I choose. It is out of my free will.

I’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it’s serious business.

What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I’m not who I say I am when it comes to my faith – something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time.

When I write, it’s like choosing which shoes I’m going to put on. More often than not, my lyrics are personal – but I sometimes have to put myself in other people’s shoes.

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.

I just think that trusting God means we’re going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we’re never going to understand them all.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.

Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

Everyone has their style and your style explains a lot about who you are – you feel me? I’ve had style since childhood, so I like to dress how I feel. But maybe I get carried away by some trends.

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

What I cry out for, like every being, with my whole life and all my earthly passion, is something very different from an equal to cherish: it is a God to adore.

If I didn’t have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It’s not my business whether people like or dislike it.

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.