Just a thank you is a mighty powerful prayer. Says it all.

Sometimes the fragment of a conversation, the color of the sky, the image in a dream, has everything to do with where the song begins.

As John Adams said, all democracies will eventually self-destruct. We seem to be doing it very quickly.

I wanted to be the writer in the room setting depth charges of feeling out the world with my language.You know, I had a very romantic idea about that.But I grew into being a performer.

I adhere to the religion of art and music and small children.

Self-expression without craft is for toddlers.

I have a real worker-bee mentality. Just show up, just do it. Even if you feel like s--t and you think you're terrible and you'll never get better and it will never go anywhere, just show up and do it. And, eventually, something happens.