I was Renee Zellweger's fat doppelganger. If she ever played in a movie where she needed to be fat, apparently I could be her stunt double.

There is a pretty girl on the face of the magazine and all I see is my dirty hands turning the page.

I was homeless and I was in San Diego and I started singing in a local coffee shop and people started coming to hear me sing.

Being engaged with life. One has to develop a poet's eye for perfect moments, moments that most people pass by.

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

I've had mentors who were kind of the troubadour singer-songwriters, like Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and Neil Young, and that's just what I've always liked - people who would talk real honestly about their lives and their circumstance.

We all need to demand the happiness for ourselves we desire. Fight for it. Wrestle it out of the clenched fist of the world you live in