I've always loved acoustic music because I've always loved to hear someone's words or just watch them and just get into them. The distancing thing about rock is it's so assaulting.

Every night is different, a ball of thread that unrolls differently.

I'd probably be famous now if I wasn't such a good waitress.

I think, because I'm an artist, part of my job is to be a barometer, an antenna. It's in the air and it resonates with a lot of people to lighten up.

Music is gathering. Taking our scattered thoughts and senses and coalescing us back into our core. Music is powerful. The first few chords can change us where no self-help books can.

It's all about consistency, and what makes a child or a dog secure: order, clarity - all those things.

I'm not a household word. The climate for original music is always a bit difficult.

Ultimately you understand there is order in the universe, even if there is no order in your immediate circumstances.

Music is all about training in harmony, training to understand and use musical energy for our greater pleasure by attuning to the natural laws of the universe.

I felt old when I was young and I feel younger now. Maybe that's a trick of my mind, but I'm springier and lighter.

It takes forever if you go by inertia.

Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace.

Dance with your rhythm.

I don't know what I shall do. I just want to go away and look at people and think.

A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction, ' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.

Something is going to have to happen. Not necessarily something big. Just something.

When people don't do anything they don't think anything, and when people don't think anything there's nothing to think about them.

Your birthday is a special day, May it bring you love and cheer It gives a chance for me to say, Happy birthday every year

I carve stone. I've got hammers and chisels and I carve from sandstone. I just did a big mural of birds and trees.

War is sweet to those who never tried it.

They told me I was everything. 'Tis a lie, I am not ague-proof.