Everybody has their own level of doing their music. ... Mine just happened to resonate over the years, in one way and another, with a significant enough number of people so that I could do it professionally.

What my true addiction is is reading. I love to read. If I'd get too loaded, I couldn't remember the sentence I just read.

Everybody has their own level of doing their music. ... Mine just happened to resonate over the years, in one way and another, with a significant enough number of people so that I could do it professionally.

The greatest sin is carelessness.

In committing to artistic growth, you have to refine your skills to support your instincts.

I feel sorry for a culture that depends too much on delegating its musical expression to professionals. It is fine to have heroes, but we should do our own singing first, even if it is never heard beyond the shower curtain.

When the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky.