fallin lovewith your solitude

he placed his handson my mindbefore reachingfor my waistmy hipsor my lipshe didn't call mebeautiful firsthe called meexquisite - how he touches me

stayi whisperedas youshut the door behind you

I will not have youbuild me into your lifewhen what i want is tobuild a life with you-the difference

I will not have youbuild me into your lifewhen what i want is tobuild a life with you

isn't it such a tragic thing when you can see it so clearly but the other person doesn't

i am not a hotel room. i am homei am not the whiskey you wanti am the water you needdon't come here with expectationsand try to make a vacation out of me

i am watersoft enoughto offer lifetough enoughto drown it away

for you to see beauty heredoes not meanthere is beauty in meit means there is beauty rootedso deep within youyou can’t help butsee it everywhere

i am a museum full of artbut you had your eyes shut

what terrifies me most is how wefoam at the mouth with envywhen others succeedbut sigh in reliefwhen they are failingour struggle tocelebrate each other iswhat's proven most difficultin being human

It is my conviction that when events are forgotten, buried in the cellar of the page, they are no longer even history.

...it was amazing, wasn't it, how bad you could hurt when there was nothing physically wrong.

It's not just a question of doing what you love for a living. It's about doing what you love with love. Then your life and all be transformed.

For now the poet cannot die, Nor leave his music as of old, But round him ere he scarce be cold Begins the scandal and the cry.

Beyond learning and unlearning is awareness, and beyond awareness is consciousness, and beyond consciousness is immortality, and beyond immortality is dharma and beyond dharma is nirvana.

My schedule, it always looks like it's really steady, but believe it or not, I tend to work a bunch and then take a year off.

My reading is always about musical biographies. I have an innate interest and passion for that.

The new Kenyans. There are always new Kenyans.

Through bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity.

It ain't the heat, it's the humility.