And I think it's a real challenge to be up there sometimes with only a keyboard if they don't have a grand piano... and to try to win people over that way. It's really hard.

To be honest, I'm not as goal oriented and ambitious as I once was.

Time, where did you go? / Why did you leave me here alone? / Wait, don't go so fast / I'm missing the moments as they pass

The flattery is nice, but awards don't add up to writing quality songs.

I can't say I want to earn a particular award or sell a certain number of records, because even if I do that, the satisfaction only lasts five minutes.

Well, I actually first got into music as a small child, and as I became a teen, I sought out making money from music, weather that was singing lounge gigs, backup in studios, or weddings.

Maybe in past years, perhaps women didn't feel quite as comfortable with revealing themselves, and their skills and their crafts... and now we are, so we're out there, just like the guys.

Generally my feeling is that I think women are just in a universal way coming out, coming to their own more. And they have more opportunity, and basically we're equal.

It scares me to speak my mind, it might sound self-absorbed, I don't say half of what I think, I wonder what I'm thinking for

I'm learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I'm doing.

Well, Winnepeg has everything to do with my music in the sense it was where I was born and raised, cultured and all that sort of thing. A lot of my experiences come from Winnepeg.

We must stop destroying human capacity. Now.Too many of today’s leaders are holding back the future because it comes wrapped in risks.

Sorry, dear. This isn´t fairy tale. There´s no happily ever after. Just... ever after.

...[T]o be unfaithful to my maxim of prudence may often be very advantageous to me, although to abide by it is certainly safer.

When God created the earth, He intended that everything that has breath would praise him

Why must we hide, Behind walls built high?N' blame our lives, On him, her, I?

It is not what happens to people that is significant, but what they think happens to them.

We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.

I can bounce back from adversity and reinvent my life - it's possible

They can say whatever they want to say, but it is going to be hard, my friend, to duplicate me.

The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.