And I Don't Think That Success Is

I Think Books Find Their Way To You When You Need Them. Whenever I Feel Like I'm Not Going To Live To Read All The Books I Want To Read, I Remind Myself That The Important Ones Find Their Way To Me.

My Dad Had More Compassion Than Me. He Was Nonjudgmental. He Didn't Care Where You Stood Politically. He Just Took You As A Person On Face Value. He Could Love All Stripes, And That's Why All Stripes Claim Him. He Didn't Judge.

Southern Gentility Is Evocative To Me.

I Love Mixing Up My Genres.

Like Thornton Wilder Said, Time Is Not A River, But Rather A Landscape That You Step In And Out Of. I've Always Found That True Of Creative Work, And I've Heard So Many Songwriters And Writers In General Say The Same Thing... When You're Going Into The Realms Of Your Self And Trying To Tap Into The Mystery Of This Creative Source, Linear Time Kind Of Falls Away.