Then I show up steady ready and proud and I find I've forgotten how to talk out loud. Isn't it just like you to bring me to my knees?

We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom.

How come I can pick my ears but not my nose?

A little bird told me that jumping is easy and the falling is fun, right up until you hit sidewalk shivering and stunned.

If you want to challenge the system, don't go to bed with it.

I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off.

I noticed with older songs that I perform that I'm coming from a different place with them now...it mutates the vibe and even the meaning of the same words when you have a different spirit, if the person singing is different. I like that, to be able to sing an emotionally wrought song from a more centered place, or to sing an eager, youthful song from a more experienced place. It kind of colors the songs differently, and it keeps them fresh.