I am a late starter. I like to go on into the night when it's quiet and everything has shut down. I find that's where music and minds open in the dark.

You can't roll a joint on an iPod, buy vinyl.

I think a lot of people think that my parents' deaths is why I write such sad songs, but that's not true. Those songs may just be the woman I am.

Be exceptional. Make tremendous efforts to be extraordinary. What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute your unique donation to humankind. Just make sure you do so.

I feel like I've kind of gotten to a peaceful place in my heart.

So it's the greatest compliment in the world when people want to hear you sing. That means it feels good to them, so I keep doing it.

I am very picky about my people and my beer.

I've pretty much run the circle of labels and dealing with that whole kind of battle, because you're the one creating the music, but you're not the final say. That's always been hard.

I like rules that are broken.

I like to make great albums.

I didn't go to college.

Fast, Cheap, Good: Pick Two.

I never realized before that taking care of someone makes you love them more than when they take care of you.

I guess there's always a price to pay when you cheat fate.

Satan is masterful at using just enough of God’s truth to capture a person’s attention and then mix it with his devious potion that will lead [believers] astray.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

The companies are multinational--why should labor still stick to borders?

When you try rescuing someone and discover they can't be reached, why would you ever throw that back in their face?

Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared.

Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.

I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.