Housing is a human right. There can be no fairness or justice in a society in which some live in homelessness, or in the shadow of that risk, while others cannot even imagine it.

I didn't really understand community until I moved to New Orleans.

I suppose I look acceptable, the black (haired) sheep among the Barrett blondes.

One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.

The time when you should most of all withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

When you pray rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.

I would always fall down the big main staircase in our house. My favorite thing in the world was to pretend to be horribly killed at the top of it, and to fall dramatically down to the bottom of it.

But there's a shift happening in humanity, a shift in consciousness, happening now because it has to happen now.

He (God) loves what I shall be.

[I]t is more convenient to prevent the passage of a law, than to declare it void after it has passed.

Some people just don't want to see change, but thankfully there are a lot of people more optimistic for something new in music, even with the bigger picture like with Barack Obama getting elected.

Mike Royce and I have always had success writing what we know. What we know now is that we're middle-aged, neurotic and fat.