The thing about Alzheimer's is that it's... it's sort of like all these little, small deaths along the way, before they actually physically die.

It's just the more you do it the better you get, or at least that's how I feel in my case. I think it's a combination of confidence and just having done it this long and just learning. I'm always learning. I'm still honing my craft.

Above all, the listener should be able to understand the poem or the song, not be forced to unravel a complicated, self-indulgent puzzle. Offer your art up to the whole world, not just an elite few.

I would worry if I wasn't coming up with ideas, if I wasn't inspired.

Sometimes I feel like I just open myself up like I'm a vehicle for something coming through me. It's like a meditative state I have to be in.

I write the songs, go in and record them, then I listen to everything and decide how it all fits together.

People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.