You must be careful when you ask people whether they’re happy

One of the Secrets in Life is to Make Stepping Stones out of Stumbling Blocks.

All I ever wanted was to make my parents proud. What happens when I can't be proud of them?" --Shea Evenstar

We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has of course powerful muscles but no personality.

I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help free people from oppression.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

The opposite of faith is not doubt, it’s certainty.

Now is the moment that never ends.

An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.

That's why you need the war on drugs to put all these pot smokers in prison so that the prisons remain full and the corporations remain profitable. It's a slippery slope.

I've found for the last couple of years that the things that I can become most deeply involved with are songs that reflect my real feelings about things and so that what I've been writing about.