oh, the heartbreakingly beautifultender weight of being human.

the opening, the breaking, the falling apartis always so quick.the hurting, the healing, the putting back togetheris always too long.

i can't hold onto love.i'm not gentle enough.i always end upcrushing the thingin between my fingertips.

we get brave.we move.we believe.we keep going.

everything i know about loveis that it hurtsand is almost always never returnedthe way you want it to.but i have hopebecause i do not know everything.

you giver of light.you lover of love.you beautifulbeautifulhuman being you.

i am changingand i am loving change.

i am soft again.there is water and it surrounds me.there is feeling and i can feel it.i am awake and aliveand swollen and heavy with love.i am changingand i am loving change.

i am awake and aliveand swollen and heavywith love.

i feel everything.i do not know how to un-feeland to not feelis to stop the sun.

i took it off.i did not want to carry it with me anymore.

Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might have been.

I don't worry about new young bands. The bounty of life is infinite and so is music and so are opportunities.

This love thing awakened a group of slumbering senses in my body that I never even knew existed.

Dont you know... I'm the boggyman."-St. Dane

Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.

Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus - it's simply learning how to focus.

I'm definitely never going to be a biker. I'm scared of cars so the idea of riding a motorcycle is just never going to be something that I'm into.

The place where two friends first met is sacred to them all through their friendship, all the more sacred as their friendship deepens and grows old.

To me, country music tells a story about, and deals with, the way people live their lives and what they do.