I think being raised spending so much time outdoors was really important - while you're in it, you might not know, but now I think of the things I was thankful for.

On my own I generally have very messy hair, wear jeans and sneakers.

Being part of the natural world reminds me that innocence isn't ever lost completely; we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.

I love playing big rooms. There's nothing like it. It's a power trip.

In the end only kindness matters.

I may not be able to pull on the smallest of holds, but those I can pull on I can pull on all day long.

Live your life with love and bravery and you shall lead a life uncommon.

I consider myself a product of Alaska. The love and the debt that I feel to my home state, you always want your hometown to be the proudest of you.

I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.

Reality is what you believe it to be. It's what you put your thought and energy into, because your hands physically manifest thought. So your world becomes what you feel and what you think.

I don't see the world unless I see it in ink.

To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.

A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.

I had never seen so many stars shimmering in the sky ever before. It pleased me.

Water is nothing if not ingemination, an encore to the tenacity of life.

You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.

You can learn any accent you want. It's a fascinating thing.

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

Trouthe is the hyest thyng that man may kepe.

Learning is not easy, but hard; culture is severe. The steps to Parnassus are steep and terribly arduous.

People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.