So, once I get writing I really try and put five to eight hours a day in my room with a guitar to really try and come up with stuff that feels interesting enough to me to keep it.

Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better.

A road-wise folkie with a bluesy soul reminiscent of early Michelle Shocked, Melissa Crabtree is an original storyteller and performer not to be missed.

Get to know the real you, rather than try to look like or dress like those around you.

Love can't make you strong 'till love has made you weak.

Adam Ezra writes with the heart of a troubadour and sings like a rock star. He is truely a fresh voice in singer/songwriter scene.

When you do have songs where you're going to say something, some kind of statement about cultural or social stuff, that in general people love it. People love to be challenged in that way.

I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write.

Love and compassion are the mother and father of a smile. We need to create more smiles in our world today. Smiles, after all, pave the way to a happy world.

Learn to depend upon yourself by doing things in accordance with your own way of thinking.

Nobody has a right to speak more clearly than he thinks.

From pitch perspective, the more you wear your idea, the more it fits you and your comfortable with it, the easier it is for somebody like me to say tell me more.

May the stars carry your sadness away, may the flowers fill your heart with beauty, may hope forever wipe away your tears. And, above all, may silence make you strong.

The defensive perimeter [of the United States in East Asia] runs along the Aleutians to Japan and then goes to the Ryukyus.

It had not yet been named Silicon Valley, but you had the defense industry, you had Hewlett-Packard. But you also had the counter-culture, the Bay Area. That entire brew came together in Steve Jobs.

Half of San Antonio's population is of Mexican descent; the other half just eats that way.

The reason why we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else's highlight reel.

I didn't get over 1300 walks without knowing the strike zone.