Creativity is not and never has been sensible.

Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.

What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.

The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations.

I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow.

Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.

It takes constant vigilance not to slip into negativity or simple apathy. It takes courage to believe over any given period of time that we are getting better and not sliding into decline.

As you move toward a dream, the dream moves toward you.

Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.

If we lean into what we love instead of soldiering toward what we 'should,' our pace quickens, our energy rises, optimism sets in. What we love is nutritious for us.

What we focus on, we empower and enlarge. Good multiplies when focused upon. Negativity multiplies when focused upon. The choice is ours: Which do we want more of?

Falling in love is painful on the knees.

Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

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Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.

What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes?

Every time the guys were knocked out by my guitar playing and the girls were knocked out by the type of songs I did. That set us apart from the average blues band.

I never get tired of exploring Americana or country music, and I always have a little bit of a crooner in me that never seems to go away.

Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.