After all these years, I'm finally into soccer. The World Cup is on, and my band is an international group - they're all around me, cheering in the hotel bars.

Everything worth doing starts with being scared.

They say in the darkest night there is a light beyond

You jump right over anything in the past, and you don't analyze problems.

By my 40s, I finally got out of my own way, so I could become a life creator; a life giver.

I have the feeling that in a balanced life one should die penniless. The trick is dismantling.

In the tradition of great female artists, Karla Bonoff, Bonnie Raitt, Christine McVie, Shawn Colvin, Sarah McLachlan....now enter Maia Sharp.

Yes, I like that word. "More" is a prayer to God, isn't it? Gratitude and plea, all in one.

We'd go to the fraternity house. It was a good place to practice. But we really wanted the kids to overhear us. And whoever heard us would go nuts over it.

I'm the kind of person who can hear that stuff. If you sing along to the radio and you're not going to sing unison with the melody, but find the harmony, I find that pretty easy to do.

I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it.

The third element of love is mudita, joy. True love always brings joy to ourselves and to the one we love. If our love does not bring joy to both of us, it is not true love.

Did I come into this world thru the womb of my mother the earth just so I could talk and write like everybody else?

I was thinking 'Love Story', obviously, was a romantic film of that time.

As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makes plain the pathway.

The trouble was, my feelings for Patch weren't harmless.

Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher.

My brand is good storytelling. I really want [my company] Hillman Grad Productions to be associated with great stories, interesting characters; things that are three-dimensional and feel honest.

All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into bread and butter.

Some day you do something where you use everything you know. You don't do it ostentatiously where you see the workings going on. But some day, if you're lucky, that will happen.

There is a frightful interval between the seed and the timber.