Beauty isn't what you see on TV or in magazine ads or even necessarily in art galleries. It's a lot deeper and a lot simpler than that. It's realizing the goodness of things, it's leaving the world a little better than it was before you got here. It's appreciating the inspiration of the world around you and trying to inspire others.

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.

I can’t imagine it now, but I must’ve been innocent at some time in my life. A baby don’t just get itself born bad, do it?

I wouldn't like to live in a world where everything's as cut-and-dried as most people think it is

The best artists know what to leave out.

The past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter.

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