Fool you once, you are forgiven. Fool you twice, you're just a fool.

You know, that single girl life and that sense of isolation - that doesn't leave you just like that. And that's what that song is about. I remember that, and that is imprinted on me, that sense.

It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

In this world, you've a soul for a compass and a heart for a pair of wings.

Emmy Lou Harris introduced me to the work of the Vietnam Veterans of America foundation and the Campaign for a Land Mine Free World.

Carry with you maps and string, flashlights, friends who make you sing, and stars to help you find your place, music, hope, and amazing grace.

Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium.

Life is never a straight line - it's peaks and valleys. Why would you want to be the same person every day of your life?

We all have two lives. The one we are given and the one we create.

Was it a light only she could see? A gypsy's spell? A mystery?

Every sleepy boy and girl in every bed around the world- Can hear the stars up in the sky whispering a lullaby

Your best disguise is the strong impression your enemy has of you. Strong...and dead wrong.

Great men can’t be ruled... The great is the rare, the difficult, the exceptional.

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

alcohol played the midwife

I was on the high school track team, believe it or not, and played baseball, poorly but passionately.

I didn't start the business to make a pile of money. I did it to preserve myself for old age.

The pessimism of the creative person is not decadence but a mighty passion for the redemption of man.

I think of many of my photographs as being obviously symbolic but not symbolically obvious. There isn't any specific correlation between the symbols in this image and any content that I have in mind.

Be strong and of good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed.

If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true.