There's a certain grace in accepting what your life is and embracing all the good things that have been - but there's still an expectation of good things to come. Not necessarily what you expected.

I really believe that we have a responsibility, almost a sacred responsibility, to the animals that share this planet with us.

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.

When there are dogs and music, people have a good time.

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

You have to grow up, start paying the rent and have your heart broken before you understand country.

Every song that I start to write, I wonder if I'll be able to write it.