Surround yourself with good people. Whether they're the best or not, people are capable of learning if they've got good hearts and they're good souls.
I try to make my music have the quiet spaces of folk, the intimacy, and the energy of rock.
I found it stimulating to study the sciences. It was a side of understanding the universe that I hadn't been exposed to.
I am a musician. I didn't know I would be so when I was young. I do know that I have always heard music in my head that I wasn't hearing somewhere else and I 'needed' this music. And obedient to the laws of nature, I created into this vacuum.
I'd like to see the Second Coming in every one of us. That we all be Jesus. That we all embody that consciousness.
If you ask someone if they like music, they look at you strangely. It seems to be a universal given. Like asking someone if they like breathing. It is like breathing. Or air, rather. Flowing without and within. A matrix within which our lives are set. The setting for the tableware of our beings.
I think, because I'm an artist, part of my job is to be a barometer, an antenna. It's in the air and it resonates with a lot of people to lighten up.
Never be led in new paths by the blind
Death had to take Roosevelt sleeping, for if he had been awake, there would have been a fight.
In our competitive world we're taught to never quit trying, never give up, and never give in - so we don't hear much about surrendering. If winning is everything, surrendering is unthinkable. Even Christians would rather talk about winning, succeeding, overcoming, and conquering than yielding, submitting, obeying, and surrendering. But surrendering to God is the heart of worship.
Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.