My son, who sees me almost every day of his life, will look at me and go, "I know that dude! I like that dude!" It's incredibly affirming.

There are real teachers out there; I don't pretend to have their mantle.

As an artist, you always have to be growing. You don't just want to do what you already know people like.

Giving up and doing something else (nursing, for me) was exactly what eventually led me to making music that other people wanted to hear.

Literature is a mystical place for me. It's not dry. It's where miracles happen.

May we all emerge from winter with our strength renewed and any unwanted pieces left under the ice.

I still get really excited looking at stuff that I've seen every day for 20 years.