I like to encourage people interested in gardening or planting to begin with a simple herb garden. Even if you live in a small apartment, you can have some herb pots.

For me, conscious parenting is staying attuned to your child, being really open and in the moment. It means staying as present as possible in your own breath for the betterment of your whole family.

It is important how people take you.

As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.

Veganism is not a limitation in any way; it's an expansion of your love, your commitment to nonviolence, and your belief in justice for all.

My mother and dad played the fiddle and the guitar.

To play with correctness and skill the ends of games, is an important but a very rare accomplishment, expect among the magnates of the game.

Lots of women are gifting themselves with diamonds for their right hand.

Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are fakes, hanging around the sacred precincts, trying to look like the real thing.

There's nothing in the American dream about character. It's a serious flaw.

My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire.

Everytime you forgive you disappoint the devil.