Life has loveliness to sell all beautiful and splendid things blue waves whitened on a cliff soaring fire that sways and sings and children's faces looking up holding wonder like a cup.

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

For in the true nature of things if we rightly consider every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Come forth into the light of things let nature be your teacher.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

I just want to keep making music recording and trying different things. I don't want to do the same thing all the time.

I've been told the weirdest things: 'Yeah I love taking a bath to your music!' or 'I gave birth to my daughter while listening to your music.'

I sing a mixture of everything from opera folk music Broadway. It's a mix of things.

I'd love to do a modern-day musical that's full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for it to be transformational and magical and all those things a musical is supposed to be.

Also because people like to multitask in a way if you've got a bit of music on in the background and the lyrical content is making you want to listen to it then that would probably put you off the texting you wanted to do. I think people like things that just make that right kind of noise but leave your brain free to do something else.

I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow.

What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz blues country music and so forth. I do them all like a good utility man.

I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic sexy but classy all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music then the lyrical content starts to come - you know the stories and things like that.

These seem to me so ambiguous so vague so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.

A lot of the music that you listen to now is because of the things that the Meters did the Neville Brothers did and they're there the guys who invented those beats that the guys sample today. Such an enormous opportunity.

The Christian community latched onto a lot of my music because there were a lot of things about my struggle they related to. But I didn't really want to come out and be identified as a Christian because I didn't want to be a hypocrite because my life wasn't right.

I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial.

Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive even the smallest task in music is so absorbing and carries us so far away from town country earth and all worldly things that it is truly a blessed gift of God.

In our music in our everyday life there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?

Before I settled on music I wanted to be an archaeologist an astronaut all sorts of really diverse things.

I've done some acting and a lot of different things but mostly it's the music.