I don’t try to project any image at all, other than the person that I am.
We are the spirit, the collective conscience. We create the pain, and suffering, and beauty in this world.
You have to pay attention to the moment and make it the best it can be for you. I’ve been trying to do that. It’s really made a major difference for me. I’m a happier person.
After it’s finished, sometimes I can trace a path that goes back to the possible source of inspiration.
I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ.
There’s a power in words. There’s a power in being able to explain and describe and articulate what you know and feel and believe about the world, and about yourself.
Some things remain fragments, just the lyrics and melodies or a line or two or a verse.
Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It’s something I don’t feel like I really control.
Who took away the part so essential to the whole Left you a hollow body Skin and bone.
I’m not sure if the next song I write is going to be about love or a song about a tree.
I meet people in my daily life, people who seem to experience some change and some growth on a personal level, and that gives me hope.
When you feel like you’ve had a good show, you go backstage and you talk to yourself about it, and if you have a bad show you talk to yourself about it.
I think many people would say that writers like Stephen King have hypergraphia.
I love living in California and being able to go to the beach or go to the woods.
Have faith in humankind a respect for what is earthly and an unfaltering belief in peace and understanding.
I found myself in the middle of a race riot when I was about 14 years old, and I found someone pointing a gun at me and telling me to run or they’d shoot me.
We have more media than ever and more technology in our lives. It’s supposed to help us communicate, but it has the opposite effect of isolating us.
I learn all these things about the record talking about it after it’s finished.
As a child I spent a lot of time at the library.
I see some recurring themes: things that feel threaded together, some symbolic references, and songs about some of the big questions, like death. There are a lot of references to weather, too!