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.

New York, you got money on your mind. And my words won't make a dime's worth a difference, so here's to you New York.

You are what you eat.

I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty. Revere and respect Gaia. Have trust in Gaia. But not faith.

One of the oddest things in life, as we all know, is the way that when you have heard a thing mentioned, within twenty-four hours you nearly always come across it again.

I don't do anything to impress anyone, quite successfully I can tell you.

I have a life that's just been a well of loneliness.

Failure is a word I don't accept.

In the summer of 80, Silhouette bought my first book.

I want young people to see me and think you can be feminine and smart and successful, all at the same time.

democracy ... begins from the ground up. Anything living grows from the bottom up. Everything dangerous, like bombs, gets dropped from the sky down.