I stopped hating and started just being. My whole life, I had been the most defensive person you'd meet, unable to tolerate any criticism. But now I started listening and being.

I think there is always going to be inspired music and there are always going to be inspired listeners and there is always going to be an inspired method of getting it from A to B.

I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s.

What doesn't kill you only makes your book longer.

What I've realized over the years is that I have some pretty good friends.

Give her the continent and she wanted the hemisphere.

It didn't matter if I got bitten by a dog or I ripped my pants on the fence post or I poked myself in the eye with a tree branch that I was crawling over, it was all about the shortcut. My whole life I took the shortcut, and I ended up lost.