I don't think I'd be able to flat-out write a pop song and make it satisfying to me. I'm ready to make a consistent sound in whatever way I can.

I never really thought about my music being universal. When I set out to write, it is just a feeling that feels good to me. I never thought about being able to reach everybody.

I'm not writing just classic-sounding songs, but songs that come from experience.

If I went crazy and tried to make pop music, my band wouldn't record it! I love them too much to do that.

Sometimes I start with lyrics - rarely - but sometimes I might have an idea for some lyrics that I wanna say. I write them down and figure out how to use that in a melody to write a song.

I just want people to see my growth as an artist, and singer.

If we learn to be responsible for our own emotions, thoughts, and needs, then we can see other people for who they are as opposed to what they can do for us.

Discipline is needed in our eating habit.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

We want to make sure the thing you're looking for is on Google 100 percent of the time.

in the smallest cells are reflections of the largest. And in photography, through an interplay of scales, a whole universe within a universe can be revealed.

and I shudder sometimes to think of all that stellar mystery of how she IS going to get me in a future lifetime, wow - And I seriously do believe that will be my salvation, too. A long way to go.

I've been to Israel many times - I've lost count of how many times.

The everyday, familiar sense of self who lives in time, and that dimension which we've called presence, that is always here, that is still and quiet.

If you have several ideas that all seem pretty good, work on the one that you think about, when you're not trying to think about work.

I'm an old fashioned joint smoker ya know.