I turned my pain into art and my hard work into a career. Helping myself has helped others. helping others has helped me.

and I try to draw the line but it ends up running down the middle of me most of the time.

A good brain ain't diddley, if you don't have the facts.

Don't tell me what they did to you as though you had no choice. Tell me, isn't that your picture? Isn't that your voice.

We get a little further from perfection each year. I think that's called character. I think that's just how it goes.

I speak without reservation, from what I know and who I am. I do so with the understanding that all people should have the right to offer their voices to the chorus whether the result is harmony or dissonance. The worldsong is a colorless dirge without the differences that distinguish us, and it is that difference which should be celebrated not condemned.

Playing show after show is like my bread and butter.