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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
Personal Development

"And there wasn't anything he wanted to do that he couldn't make time for. What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want? Love, he could hear Eve saying. Purpose. Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can't plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don't happen? Do you spend your whole life pining for them? Waiting to be happy?"

"Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible."

"It can be a beautiful experience to look for the magic that is hidden within the realm of our lives, but let's not let the process blind us to the majesty that is right in front of us."

"Your life is a reflection. you don't get what you WANT, you get what you ARE. You gotta BE it to SEE it."
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"I love the idea of stepping out of the band situation into a solo world with no boundaries, no expectations, where nothing is out of bounds."


"Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively."


"I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on television singing their hearts out."


"Once you start thinking about it in a mercenary frame of mind, then you're finished. You're a joke, because there are too many mercenaries out there already."


"If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me because I'm too lazy to write."


"We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals."


"It was more fun trying to figure out I Want To Hold Your Hand than to take lessons. By this time I knew basic chords."


"I wish I had a nickel for every song that I've left in the bathroom, written down on a matchbox, or just totally forgotten about."
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