A picture can say 1000 words but it can also inspire you to write 1000 more.

Genre-spanning is the effort to make the live show interesting. It's also a great way to challenge yourself as a writer.

I had always been singing, all of my life, but it wasn't until I got out of high school and was on my own that I didn't have any accompaniment.

Another year is fast approaching. Go be that starving artist you’re afraid to be. Open up that journal and get poetic finally. Volunteer. Suck it up and travel. You were not born here to work and pay taxes. You were put here to be part of a vast organism to explore and create. Stop putting it off. The world has much more to offer than what’s on 15 televisions at TGI Fridays. Take pictures. Scare people. Shake up the scene. Be the change you want to see in the world.

Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.

Anything that we're connecting with that's happening right now, there's an obvious vulnerability - because we're just fragile human beings in the middle of a just-now expression.

I really want to be able to keep going and I realize that in some aspects I've got to treat myself like an athlete.