If I am feeling musical and I pick up the guitar, usually something will eventually come out and I'll see where it goes.

Music is generally important to blind people, and most of the blind people that I have come into contact, through my parents, music is very special to them.

The first time I ever found Paste I thought somebody just might have finally made a magazine using only the contents of my brain. I read it cover to cover every single month.

The advice is, go slow and take your time with it. That works to my benefit.

The old adage, that "music is a universal language", is really true.

I'm not Metallica, you can tell that I'm really not that angry in most of my songs.

That old adage, that "music is a universal language", is really true. Even if all of the lyrics are understood, they seem to connect with it really well and in some ways, more so.

Therapy really did prepare me to become an empathic songwriter. As far as advice goes, it's a matter of self understanding first.

I am definitely not listening to anything remotely close to my music, at least not on a nice day.

If it is a good song, it is a good song. The Beatles were pop, the beach boys were pop and it's the best music of all time.

It's such a silly little thing, the heart.

caring is not abstract. The circle of ecological compassion we feel is enlarged by direct experience of the living world, and shrunken by its lack.

The dictatorship is like an aria that never becomes an opera.

... everyone has come to understand that unconditional love is a reality, but with as shelf life of about eight to ten seconds. [p. 110]

Turns out I'm really good at killing people. Didn't know that was gonna be a strong suit of mine.

For when the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through places without water, seeking rest; and not finding. . .

Please, God. Help me. Take this pain away. Please fill this loneliness with your love. Help me, God, please, help me.

Let me tell you, there's no better medicine than a friendly card game for sloughing off the cares of a workaday world.

For some reason the football coach of a major college program is seen as one of the leaders of the campus. And some way we have to let our young people know that that leader can look like anyone.

It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.