That's what music is about, and those are the types of experiences I value most in looking for the visceral and unidentifiable thing it is that makes… - Mark Heard

Trying to avoid clichés helps life become fresh again, helps us remember what life is about in the first place. -Fingerprint.

Music is a solace for me now. As I age, contrary to common sense, I am more and more drawn into it and apt to spend more of my waking and some of my sleeping hours thinking about it, or just feeling about it. It is my escape.

In my skeptical days, people who wanted to appear very spiritual were always telling me to forget my questions, to shove them under the rug and go on in "faith." In fact, some of my friends thought my questions were my own devices to dodge the "real issues." They thought I must be morally decadent to voice such questions. -Appalachian Melody.