As both a musician and a former teacher, I feel that music is as important to kids as reading and writing.

Once over there [Balkans], I felt extremely patriotic. Here are these people, from 18-year-olds to military veterans, enduring real duress for the cause of peace. I don't ever want to play for a regular audience again, only military folks who are starving for music.

I feel like I've passed through a certain door in my life and that I'm standing in a different room now.

The only person who can save you is you: That going to be the thing that informed the rest of my life.

People go through challenging moments of losing people and of having their life threatened from illness and real grief. But they get through it. And that's the testament to the human spirit and it's -we are fragile, but we also are divine.

I have a healthy cynicism, but not anger.

I don’t need to reiterate the fact that that everyone has a relationship with cancer. Whether it’s an individual-personal relationship — whether it’s with family or friends — we’ve all been touched by cancer.