There hasn't been a true breakdown or effort to break Thai music into genres. They're not into dicing and slicing everything up.

Everyone's a singer now, thanks to karaoke, for better and for much worse. But the live band is now becoming ancient history in Thailand, Cambodia, and Burma.

In terms of perceptions of the culture, most people don't think about music. They're not concerned with it. They don't take their musical legacy seriously.

I've had to adjust to karaoke as a modern reality that obscures our hunt for what we're truly after.

Old is unwanted. You don't find Thais going to the thrift store. They want new clothes. They want the newest cell phone.

...I can't make exceptions for myself. If I can run, I will run. I don't have to feel good to do it.

Frustration is having a debate with a blind man on shades of red

Maybe he thought I would run then. Maybe he thought I would be done. But I had been hurt before. I think he underestimated my ability to pick myself up and keep going. Done? Far from it.

Our prayers run along one road and God's answers by another, and by and by they meet.

Catharsis returns us to the purpose for which were originally intended - to be called by God to do good - and thus ultimately returns us to ourselves.

It is not enough that Jesus died. Someone must apply the blood of Jesus to the national sin of (the) USA.

A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred.

As I walk .. as I walk .. / The universe .. is walking with me .. / Beautifully .. it walks before me .... / Beautifully .. on every side .... / As I walk .. I walk with beauty.

Creative ideas come to the intuitive person who can face up to the insecurity of looking beyond the obvious.

Prudent men lock up their motives, letting familiars have a key to their hearts, as to their garden.