Love was really a high priority. You could drive up this road and there'd be open doors. You could actually walk in as a stranger and they'd invite you for a meal.

When you're working with vibes the music comes right in. The blend is perfect. So to me it was never a mismatch. It was actually pretty complementary.

If you do nursing or that type of work long enough, you become a healer in your own thoughts. You're cycling love, so you can stay a little more sane in the midst of it.

I just remember there was one rule: If you've got faults, we expect you to be working on it. And we are here for you. People would welcome each other then. We don't do that anymore. We don't care.

I love to work with Julia [Holter] because our voices have a similar timbre, and she's very unique. She finds very avant-garde harmonies that I adore.

If it works for the piece of music, I'm going to use it. I don't want to be limited any more than [Bob] Dylan wanted to be limited by not using an electric guitar.

you can win a talent show and be so famous that you cant walk down the street, but no-one knows you next monday.

Lack of commitment — is the main reason for failure among Christian leaders

My main focus in sobriety has been to replace fear with faith or love.

One man's constant is another man's variable.

My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring and carried aloft on the wings of the breeze.

I never talk about auditions. Even if I've got the role, I won't tell people until we're literally filming it.

I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say.

He who knows how to be aggressive, and yet remains patient, becomes a receptacle for all of Nature's lessons.

Oh seize the instant time; you never will With water once passed by impel the mill.

What polluters do is raise the standards of living for themselves, while lowering the quality of living for everybody else, and they do that by escaping the disciplines of the free market.