She hoped he was running to his red deer woman, and that when he tapped on the door of her heart, she'd open it wide and let him in.

Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's the choices we make that define who we really are.

Let me give you some advice: Try to approach things without preconceived ideas, without supposing you already know everything there is to know about them. Get that trick down and you'll be surprised at what's really all around you.

Everything has a spirit and it's all connected. If you think about that, if you live your life by it, then you're less likely to cause any hurt. It's like how our bodies go back into the ground when we die, so that connects us to the earth. If you dump trash, you're dumping it on your and my ancestors. Or to bring it down to its simplest level: treat everything and everybody the way you want to be treated, because when you hurt someone, you're only hurting yourself.

Writing music uses a whole different process that involves a lot of noodling and just seeing what comes.

... we chase after ghosts and spirits and are left holding only memories and dreams. It's not that we want what we can't have; it's that we've held all we could want and then had to watch it slip away.

There are people who take the heart out of you, and there are people who put it back.