A unique, personal music that lights up the stage with its joy and enthusiasm.

For me, being vulnerable is asking for help from other people whatever it may be.

There's the kind of love where being around someone makes you feel energized. Just being around them gives you more energy than less.

The seeds that we speed into life to be trees, will soon become fallen if thier roots aren't deep.

The past is beautiful / like the darkness between the fireflies.

I am really concerned about all of the chemicals. Global warming is another huge one, but the amount of chemicals being used in like laundry detergents and fertilizers is concerning.

The increase in chemicals and the increase in technology, like wi-fi and cell phone use that's going through our bodies all of the time is something that is big on my radar.

Meditation is the one thing I do every day - meditate, pray. I do reading in the morning and try to center myself. I play music every day because that is very centering.

I like having a song in my head that's never been heard and then going into a studio and recording it and hearing it exist in the world. It's a magical part. Filled with wonder.

Perhaps memory is a thing that everyone involved has to work at, like stitching up a big quilt out of everything that ever happened to you.

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side.

Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard-you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!

We did talk about cheese on our first date.

I always make music that's reflective of the mindset I'm in at the time, how I'm feeling.

Being able to step outside of yourself in order to help someone else is why we're all here, it's what we should all be doing if we can.

I can swim I'm not bad, but not great.

The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion.

It's not like I idolize this one guy Machiavelli. I idolize that type of thinking where you do whatever's gonna make you achieve your goal.