Simplicity can intensify the emotion.

Like falling stars from the universe we are hurled Down through the long loneliness of the world Until we behold the pain, become the pearl

I was feeling single, seeing double, wound up in a whole lotta trouble.

I'm blessed to be able to work at something that I'm good at, and that I love. It's not something I take for granted.

You get to a certain point in your life where you get closer to the end of your life than the beginning, and it colors your life, in a way.

I'm so grateful that I'm able to do something about this passion that I have for shelter animals. In a strange way, it completes me. It means so much to me and makes me feel like I'm truly making a difference.

I'm very influenced by landscapes, not so much the way places look as the way the names sound. In this country we've got so many cultures, and the place names - the Spanish names and the Indian names, which are so incredibly musical.