You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying. Do the best you can do every day.
Transformation is my favorite game and in my experience, anger and frustration are the result of you not being authentic somewhere in your life or with someone in your life. Being fake about anything creates a block inside of you. Life can’t work for you if you don’t show up as you.
Last weekend a young man asked me how I remain so positive. “It seems all the negativity in the world doesn’t affect you,” he said. I had no more than a minute with the young man so I offered this: It’s all about where you choose to put your attention, and I choose to be happy.
I think there’s no greater joy than completing a song out of thin air. It’s like inventing something, but it’s invisible, you know? It’s weird. It amazes me. You can send it out in the world, and that’s the joy. It’s like giving birth to all these songs and letting them go like they’re your kids.
You can turn off the sun, but I’m still gonna shine.
Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.
I feel at home in intimate concert halls. I can take risks and I’m immediately forgiven if the risk is a failure because it’s such a cozy atmosphere. It opens up the opportunity for conversation and for interacting with the crowd.
I am who I am, you are who you are, and everything else is a perception based on acceptance, deception, smoke, mirrors, and so on. It’s what’s between us that seems to justify our accidental identities.
You don’t have to live near the ocean for it to have an impact on you. And you don’t have to live near the ocean for you to have an impact on it.
I think surprises are what’s great about life: “WHOA! I didn’t see that coming!”
Life can’t work for you if you don’t show up as you.
Lucky to have been where I have been.
Surrender to life itself and you’ll just be rewarded with so many things. And I’ve been rewarded so many times, in so many mysterious ways. So I have no reason to be disappointed with anything.
We have the ability to manifest our thoughts: to actually say something and express what our feelings are. That, then, transforms the world and puts something into action.
It takes no time to fall in love, but it takes you years to know what love is.
I try not to write songs. I would rather emote them, and I found myself going back to my room every night while on my trip, just pouring out new songs and new stories about what I was seeing, what I was feeling.