Love is a divine flame.
To be a good musician, you need to give people what they want, what they need.
Only rainbows after rain. . . The sun will always come again.
Well, there are two kinds of happiness, grounded and ungrounded. Ungrounded happiness is cheesy and not based on reality. Grounded happiness is informed happiness based on the knowledge that the world sometimes sucks, but even then you have to believe in yourself.
When your dad makes a living as a children's singer, you figure, 'I can do anything. ' He made up his own job and did it.
My ultimate goal is to try to be real. It just so happens that I'm usually more happy than sad when I'm writing. And in general I think that life is pretty great, and it's cool to be here, so that comes through in my music. I don't have a dismal outlook, but I don't aim to make positive music. It's just what I am.
As a musician, you just want to be able to do what you love.
I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.
I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people.
An educator in a system of oppression is either a revolutionary or an oppressor.
I'm not suggesting that I have all the answers or that I have experienced everything someone else has. I'm a firm believer that everyone's lifespiritual journey is unique and personal, and I'm in no place to tell you what you have or have not experienced. However, I CAN tell you what I have experienced and learned, and I hope it is of use to someone out there.