I dont think I ever wanted to be a journalist - I was more interested in what comes from being a journalist.

You will never have the answers, but you have to keep pushing yourself and keep reading and keep working on yourself.

I was just a music lover who wondered what it would sound like if Otis Redding strapped on a guitar and played in a punk band. Thats it.

I guess I would call my music blues punk. Theres a lot of influences.

Blind Willie Johnson is a pretty big vocal influence. He can be very harsh, like gargly, gruff vocals, but also just slip into some very delicate, vulnerable soft stuff. I like that combination.

Even when I interviewed bands, it was about asking them about writing songs, so it was more for me than anybody else.

Ive been making music since I was 14, but for a while, I was afraid to perform.

I hope that I can make music that helps people in some way or that they can connect with, and that I can just live a life where I'm surrounded by people that I love.

You have to have some kind of clarity or understanding of what's happening to write.

Life is short, so I am one of those people - and luckily my girlfriend is too - who wants to live everywhere. I don't know how long I'll be there, but I like it right now.

This is the vital difference between Conscious Beings, which we are morphing into organically, and those who are asleep or unconscious.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Reed kissed her softly. “Live for now. Find your way. We can still be together. Forever. Don’t think about the unknown and what could happen when we don’t even know what is happening.

Why are we here? We're here to go!

Your current life is the result of your previous choices, if you want something different, begin to choose differently.

Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.

Writing and giving voice to what I am feeling makes me happy. And supporting people in finding their voice, passion, outrage and resistance. There is nothing better than that.

Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.

Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend Unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end.

Be a master everywhere and wherever you stand is your true place.