I've never thought of myself as a religious person.

Music is the emotional life of the most people.

Your heart opens and of course you're completely panicked because you're used to guarding this organ with your life.

A song, you know, you've got a tempo. You know,you've got something that is moving swiftly. You can't stop it, you know? Andit's designed to move swiftly from, you know, mouth to mouth, heart to heart,where a poem really speaks to something that has no time and that is - it's acompletely different perception.

Fare thee well my nightingale, I lived but to be near you. Thow you are singing somewhere still I can no longer hear you.

Follow me, the wise man said, but he walked behind.

I would say the hummingbird really deserves the royalties on [some of my songs].