The root and the flower have to trust each other. If the root does not trust, the plant won't blossom.

Once we have tasted far streams, touched the gold, found some limit beyond the waterfall, a season changes and we come back changed but safe, quiet, grateful.

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.

You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about

Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.

Anyone who breathes is in the rhythm business.

...What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.

A speech is something you say so as to distract attention from what you do not say.

Of all the things I wish for her, above all, I want her to know and love the sea.

Well-designed visuals do more than provide information

When you're fighting for social justice, one of my biggest pet peeves is speaking out of ignorance.

Don't worry that other people don't know you; worry that you don't know other people.

To the receptive soul the river of life pauseth not, nor is diminished.

I do feel most at home playing live, but the feeling of getting into the studio to see the new songs take shape was really incredible.

I do just want to do jokes. I don't want to be a divisive figure.

If I'm in something that I think is kinda good, it stays with me like a fever dream for a long time afterwards. I don't recall the finished product so much as the feeling of making it.

I suppose I just like being arty. That's all. Arty.