Artists are taught to be humble about their impact, especially in folk music. It's so ingrained that I have a hard time even thinking I had any impact other than what a normal hit song would have.

At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about.

I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read.

Dreams were all they gave for free to ugly duckling girls like me.

Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society.

There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to.

It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.

I love seeing teachers outside of school. It's like seeing a dog walk on its hind legs.

The best thing you can learn from the worst times of your life is that it always gets better. It may take a month, a year, a decade, but it will get better if you leave yourself open to it.

I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired.

I think I grew up, stopped worrying about what people thought of me, and whether things were going to turn out OK. I'm concentrating on doing the best work I can do and letting it go at that.

Even though I’m pro-globalization, I have to say thank God for the anti-globalization movement. They’re putting important issues on the agenda.

Men become richer not only by increasing their existing wealth but also by decreasing their expenditure.

To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.

I fear the financial crisis of 1998 may become the trade crisis of 1999.

Flowers and pricker bushes grow out of the same dust.

Hitler is a prodigious genius.

That's what I wanted for myself for even just a little while-to be unaware of the rest of the world. I needed some time.

At the end of the day, it's still a show about guys who ride extremely fast motorcycles for a living.

Every illness is an opportunity for compassionate revelations.

The dull pain of truth weights my soul, pulling it under. I am left hopelessly awake.