I love the truth. Whether it's painful or wonderful, it always widens my perspective and changes me. It helps move me forward.

Candlelight and red wine? I don't know. Vulnerability catches me off guard every single time.

I know that truly nothing is for sure.

"There is love." Someone wrote that for me on a piece of paper in an airport when I probably looked like I really needed to hear it. I did. We all need the reminder sometimes.

Coming upon a space that sounds unique and incredible is just the best feeling.

Arts in education is especially important to me. Inspired teachers in our education system is crucial in developing inspired human beings.

I do my best to write my way through it. It helps the laughing, reflective part come quicker.

Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.

What was the point of starting a new life if she did everything the same as her old one?

Weak men cannot handle power. It will either crush them, or they will use it to crush others

I am afraid of those who are too simple on the outside

The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner

There is no disgrace in working. There was no silver spoon around at the time I was born.

I find myself a little uncomfortable in the New Testament environment. And this is also true of what I would call late Judaism, the Judaism of the Second Temple and later.

For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign strands To distant shrines renowned in sundry lands.

At first I assumed hate was the opposite of love. But it isn't. The opposite of love is indifference.

Ninety percent of what we create is not our best work.

In theory, practice should work like theory. In practice, it doesn't.