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.
But that guitar is the perfect companion to the human voice. You rest it against your gut, against your heart, and when you strum it the vibrations go outwards for all to hear, but the vibration also hits you on your body.
If it’s a broken part, replace it. If it’s a broken arm then brace it. If it’s a broken heart, then face it.
Sometimes people forget their own greatness.
I’m a self-taught musician so how I read music is kind of very weak and I kind of read my own version of tablature, I write my own crappy reminders on what I’m playing.
Well, I’ve been happily supporting myself for ten years now on the hustle and trade of live entertainment. I guess my breakthrough moment was when I decided to go for it once and for all.
I won’t give up. Even if the skies get rough.
You come to realize that only one person can tell you what’s expected of you, and that’s you.
My goal is to show everyone that they, too, can do what they love to do.
I call it sacred geometry. When everything’s just right and it feels really balanced, so that when it unfolds to the next part, you feel totally familiar and at ease within the song.
By the end of the writing process, which is about 80 songs per album, I look at the material and think, what’s going to make a difference in someone’s life.
It’s strange how dreams get under your skin and give your heart a test for what’s real and what’s imaginary.
I’ve come to the conclusion that people who wear headphones while they walk, are much happier, more confident, and more beautiful individuals than someone making the solitary drudge to work without acknowledging their own interests and power.
When I look back at what musical theatre music and show music meant to me, first of all – more than anything – what it meant to me was work. As I was growing up, I realized that singing and performing was my strong suit.
Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.
You make all the fashion statements just by dressing up your mind.
A picture can say 1000 words but it can also inspire you to write 1000 more.