Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

Once we have tasted far streams, touched the gold, found some limit beyond the waterfall, a season changes and we come back changed but safe, quiet, grateful.

I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.

You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about

Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.

Anyone who breathes is in the rhythm business.

...What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.

A speech is something you say so as to distract attention from what you do not say.

If you purify the pond, the lilies die

And by golly, love sure was a battlefield. Benatar was right about that.

Perseverance....It sometimes makes you look like a foolWorking at something that that doesn't look cool.Never mind if people mock you from their stoolWhen you are enthroned they will drool!

Clear clutter. Make space for you.

For imagining lies within our power whenever we wish . . . but in forming opinons we are not free . . .

Im really good at writing almost hits.

People can't figure me out; they can't process me. I don't expect them to. You can't process me with a normal brain.

I was really just the tea boy to begin with, or the equivalent thereof, but I quickly announced, innocently but very ambitiously, that I wanted to be, I was going to be, a foreign correspondent.

There's so much music in Austin, and it's all so different.

I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.

The song How do you like me now? By Toby Keith will be my personal theme song when I attend my first high school reunion.