It's like a garden: Whatever you water the most will do the best. At some point, you decide whether you'll water your career or your relationship more.

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.

When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

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God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures.

Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.

First we love within, then we love the world.

Politics is activity in relation to power

Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.

Suffering brings me so close to God.

A piano store looks like a funeral parlor for music.

My joy is not determined by what happens to me, but what Christ is doing in me and through me.