I started singing when I was a teenager. I always wanted to write songs; I just didn't understand how someone could sing without writing their own songs.

I think I write a lot, but it's always a continuous stream of consciousness, I guess. It's a mechanic. It's a discipline and it's a way to have supplies for the songs to come.

The quality of our lives lives, depends on the quality of our thoughts.

Every year, August lashes out in volcanic fury, rising with the din of morning traffic, its great metallic wings smashing against the ground, heating the air with ever-increasing intensity.

Work a lifetime to pay off a house You finally own it and there's nobody to live in it.

Leave my soul alone, leave my soul alone

My plant is probably dead." Camryn looks slightly surprised. "You have a plant?" I smile. "Yeah, her name's Georgia.

I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You don't need a vote to raise hell! You need convictions and a voice!

It is our duty to select the best and most dependable theory that human intelligence can supply, and use it as a raft to ride the seas of life.

Many people surrender what is possible for what is comfortable.

There is always an audience for different individuals, but critics sometimes stop the audience finding the show and the show finding the audience.

Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them.