I've been surprised to learn how many people love poetry. It's beautiful to see that people want poetry in their lives.

Design is not really a way for me to express myself. Design is a product that we produce for a client.

There is no such thing as a coincidence. You will feel this before you know it.

I realized that I was writing about folks with lots of skills, especially fix-it skills and survival skills, who were nonetheless not doing well in the new-millennium America.

Sometimes things just happen in the moment.

The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.

I'm a reader of milblogs, but as with all blogs, the wheat/chaff ratio makes it a poor investment of time.

Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true.

Africa is closer to me in every way than Iraq or Syria.

I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.

If you're poor, potato chips are the food of life for you. It's the caviar.

Maybe one day a song might make you feel completely different than the next, but I like to have a lot of everything in my songs.