Therapy really did prepare me to become an empathic songwriter. As far as advice goes, it's a matter of self understanding first.

Music is generally important to blind people, and most of the blind people that I have come into contact, through my parents, music is very special to them.

The first time I ever found Paste I thought somebody just might have finally made a magazine using only the contents of my brain. I read it cover to cover every single month.

The advice is, go slow and take your time with it. That works to my benefit.

The old adage, that "music is a universal language", is really true.

If I am feeling musical and I pick up the guitar, usually something will eventually come out and I'll see where it goes.

I'm not Metallica, you can tell that I'm really not that angry in most of my songs.

That old adage, that "music is a universal language", is really true. Even if all of the lyrics are understood, they seem to connect with it really well and in some ways, more so.

I am definitely not listening to anything remotely close to my music, at least not on a nice day.

If it is a good song, it is a good song. The Beatles were pop, the beach boys were pop and it's the best music of all time.

Peace can only be found in what your extraordinary imagination has defined as an ordinary life.

A daily practice of how you shall live in heaven, here on earth, is a good qualification plan to get to heaven

Do not judge the offender before you return back to him his beloved one and his small dreams.

I never just went to look for clothes and style; I always find that wherever I go.

There is no unconditional love in the universe.

As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.

One of the things that's fascinating about making movies is a movie when it's done and you start showing it to people, it reveals its impact, which is often times not what you thought.

Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?

Dear, dead women, with such hair, too--what's become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their bosoms?

Limp along until your legs are spent, and you fall flat and your energy is drained. Then the grace of the Divine will lift you.