One of the great autoharpists and folksingers of our times.
I always write knowing that people will hear it, but also hoping they'll see it. So a lot of times I make lyrical decisions based on what looks better. Also I write based on what I saw for a video. I obsess over lyrics in the hopes that they'll endure in different ways. I'm very precious about it.
Values provide perspective in the best of times and the worst.
Within each of us there is an Owl, a Rabbit, and Eeyore, and a Pooh. For too long, we have chosen the way of Owl and Rabbit. Now, like Eeyore, we complain about the results. But that accomplishes nothing. If we are smart, we will choose the way of Pooh. As if from far away, it calls us with the voice of a child's mind. It may be hard to hear at times, but it is important just the same, because without it, we will never find our way through the forest.
There were a couple times when we started working out the stories - and I was doing this with Jim Vallely and our friend Dean Lorey, who was on the show originally - and we were working on a movie. There would be some fan fiction things that would scoop us. It happened a couple times, where I thought, "Well, we can't do that!"
You can count on the fingers of one hand the times a B sample has not confirmed the result of the A sample. It's almost always a delaying tactic.
Love of life at times requires death
We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
There are certain times when a painting accelerates beyond you, and you have to try and understand and catch up with it.
Sometimes you are being interviewed by someone and you think, if I knew this person they'd be my best friend. Other times you're being interviewed by a complete jerk.
I thought I'd reached the bottom a few times, but then I'd realise there was another 30 floors of despair below that.
Many times the players get in there and it's just about as well as they could have done, and other times they get in there and they favorites and they don't win.
It is ten thousand times cheaper to pay the best spies lavishly than even a tiny army poorly.
Many times I had to dig deep and perform. All of that adversity helped me and drove me to want to be the best.
I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.
I think writers always want to be taken seriously as writers, but it's not always possible. There's a difference between persistence and banging your head against the same wall a hundred times. Sometimes it's better to look away from the wall and see what else might be available that's easier.
Everyone's mind wanders, without doubt, and we always have to start over. Everyone resists or dislikes the thought of or is too tired to meditate at times, and we have to be able to begin again.
I have been so naughted in Thy Love's existence that my nonexistence is a thousand times sweeter than my existence
There are times when two people need to step apart from one another, but there is no rule that says they have to turn and fire.
The idea of inclusion has become kind of a stone that we've passed our hand over so many times that it doesn't mean anything.