A whole album to one writer - now that would be really interesting.

The smile on your face lets me know that you need me, there's a truth in your heart that says you'll never leave me, and the touch of your hand says you'll catch me whenever I fall.

I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me.

That's what I love. Not being interrupted, sitting in a car by myself and listening to music in the rain. There are so many great songs yet to sing

The grand old lady of bluegrass? Well, wouldn't that be a wonderful title to have? I hope I do enough to earn it some day

If you don't know what makes green, you're going to try every color combination.

Lyrics are kind of the whole thing; it's the message. Something might have a beautiful melody but if it's not the truth coming out of your mouth, it's not appealing

I don't look for bliss, just contentment.

Growing up I used to love bands like Free and ELO and the Rolling Stones. When Robert Plant got in touch it made perfect sense to me.

I'm much better at fixing or changing a melody to suit me than I would a lyric. But for me, everything is lyric. It has to be true for me to say it.

Whenever I've chosen a song because it's clever, it's always turned out to be a mistake.

Darling, do you rememberthe man you married? Touch me, remind me who I am.

If you want to ask one question, ask yourself, what are you giving to the universe and only that will be returned.

i could never be a sports writer, unless my assignment was to write 'sports sports sports sports sports' for three pages

I bend but I do not break.

One must write poetry in such as way that if one threw the poem in a window, the pane would break.

The cities of the future will be much smaller than they are today.

For me, I think that I don't like feeling pressure from outside sources. I'd rather put the pressure on myself and push myself to do it as good as I can.

like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone.

Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about

A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a people who mean to be free.