I've always been a workhorse, and I've been supporting myself since I was 15.

I grew up bar-singing and saw all kinds of ways people tried to outrun their emotional pain. It doesn't work. You end up with the original pain, as well as new pain added on top of it from the tactics you used trying to avoid it in the first place. It's best to take a deep breath, bolster yourself, and walk through it.

My whole goal is to keep my spirit intact. If that doesn't happen, none of this is worth it.

We all will be Christed when we hear ourselves say: We are that to which we pray

I say to myself, sometimes the tide is just out. But it always comes back in again.

Most of us don't spend any time knowing ourselves. We just keep reacting.

I didn't mean to be a songwriter; I just was writing for fun, you have all day to do it. I was homeless so that's all I had to do.