I don't know who I am but you know, life is for learning.

you dont know what you got till its gone

My goal as a writer is more to comfort than to disturb.

Heart and humor and humility, he said will lighten up your heavy load.

I wanted to paint in a folk-artist-y way. My heroes were Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, and Rembrandt. I think Picasso is about as a modern as I got. But I incorporated things that they rejected as well as movements that happened later.

The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature.

Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very minimal.