A journey of a thousand leagues begins beneath one's feet.
When people call people nerds, mostly what they're saying is, 'you like stuff. ' Which is not a good insult at all, like, 'you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human conscience.
Just move to the Internet, its great here. We get to live inside where the weather is always awesome.
We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.
Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.
I wouldn’t have a career if it weren’t for independent bookstores.
You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world. . . but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.
There's so much more subtlety to this new recording. There's a subtlety in the playing. There's also a subtlety in the way I approached the singing. The band was able to really capture the feeling of the songs and not really trade anything that we had sort of arranged for the live presentation, but the songs just aren't as loud.
Men are not put into this world to be everlastingly played on by the harping fingers of joy.
Women are my best friends, my best audience. If I look out from the stage and see a lot of men, I know I'm in trouble
I'm a sponge, the more I absorb, the more I am able to articulate my vision, as artists do, like Picasso. I'm an artist in that light. I went from being an artist to an artiste.