Quotes About Renewal

Endings are always tough, but I believe when something ends, there are new beginnings, new opportunities and new things to be excited for, too.

After a tough day, I go eat some steak and potatoes and take a shower.

After 12 intense years of rock music, I was happy to get away from making a record and going out on a tour. When I did it, I wanted to feel inspired. After a while I finally had my fill working on other people's music, and I started coming up with music on my own and said, 'This could be for me.'

At the end of any really long tour you need to get your head in order.

It's been over 15 years since I toured... over 12 years since I did any recording under my own name. I never really intended to take that long of a hiatus.

In 1994, I started touring again and I recorded two albums for Chesky Jazz.

When I moved to New York, I felt very strong emotionally and mentally. Aside from touring, I'd spent a couple of years alone and because of that, I was able to go out in the world again.

Getting fitter is just like getting a new haircut. It changes the way you look and also changes your outlook towards a lot of things in life.

I have always been inclined towards art, but hadn't painted in a long time. I restarted it during the lockdown, by making a sketch with an ink pen on a drawing sheet.

I just cut off a lot of toxic stuff in my life.

Dear friends of Haiti, we are indeed on the right track. Slowly but surely we are rising from the ashes.

If you reach a point where your entire farm system is in the big leagues, you've traded a couple guys for players who are now in the big leagues, you know what you do? You start over in your farm system, and you keep developing the talented players you have.

How do you fight the stagnation of monogamy and the monotony of time together?

I lose and find myself in the long water. I am gathered together once more.

Sometimes there is no way to hold your life together. Sometimes things just have to fall apart.

I haven't really spoken to God since I was a boy and I've rediscovered god and prayer in the process and all of that has come together.

People come together with their families to celebrate Easter. What better way to celebrate than to spend a few hours going on the journey of Christ's life.

There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.

To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor

Don't LIVE the same year 75 times and call it a Life

The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.

The sun gives spirit and life to the plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture.