As a songwriter, your songs are, in a way, like your children - you want them to be appreciated.

During meditation your metabolism and your breath rate go down to a level of rest, twice that of deep sleep.

I was in the oil business for a while--gas and oil, check the tires.

Love is probably the most powerful force in the cosmos, capable of creating miracles.

My greatest struggle is to coexist while watching the people I love choose less than life-supporting paths via drugs, alcohol, or poor lifestyle decisions. There is so much to life; my heart breaks watching someone held captive by addiction.

There are different things one can do to establish and hasten the peace process. Meditation is one way.

I never thought of myself as a really particularly great singer.