I was 35 years old and not in the best of shape. I spent many late nights playing music, drinking beer, and eating Taco Bell.

I'd always been a fan growing up, and in high school, I was really into Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen.

Before too long I was playing badly out in some bars around Memphis, but as soon as I learned a few chords I started writing my own stuff.

There are about five or six songs that were written in full or in part while I was in Iraq, and that was definitely a life-changing experience. There was no shortage of inspiration.

I love most 70's song writers, not so much outlaw, but really those 70's guys. I'm a big fan of Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson, those guys.

On the music side, I'm a cross between maybe that Texas songwriter and that Tom Petty feel.

Sometimes not much is just enough.

-Attempting the impossibility with a possibility God breaks the impossibility barriers.-Joseph went from kidnap experience to pit, to slavery, to prison then to PRIME MINISTER

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

I had a career at home, and I just knew that it'd be okay if nothing happened in Los Angeles.

That little burning bush that is the signature of the blog - it echoes Elizabeth Barrett Browning's words.

When you have to wait 10 and 15 years for an approval and then you don't even get the approval, it's no good.

Real vision is the ability to see the invisible.

I think it was impossible not to come upon a lot of confabulation simply because any good scholarship that has been done since [Buckminster Fuller] death has really delved in that.

The power of recognition is one of the strongest forces for stimulating human and social action.

I've definitely read stuff that I've been offered, where I've been like, "I can't do this. I think somebody would be better in this than me."