I came to singing organically.

I started to like my voice - the sound of it. So then I started to listen to it as something separate. To me, it sounded good that way as well.

From out the peaceful hollow of its throat / such music pours as I am unaware / how to devise. I did not think these things. / It is the reed that sings.

I would have followed you to hell and back... if only you'd lead me back.

Those same fists had always defied everything expected of her.

The Cat: When the wine drinks itself, when the skull speaks, when the clock strikes the right time, only then will you find the tunnel that leads to the Red Bull. There be a trick to it, of course.

Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels.

The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it.

I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn't trying to prove I'm boss. I know I'm boss.

There are so many things where I realize, like, simple circumstance, like the simple choice that I made one night to not do that and to do this, one night could have changed everything.

Experiences are like cherry on the cake. It's nice, but that's not what's going to make a difference to the habit.

Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful.

I preferred measuring deer tracks to tape - that I liked the wild liberty of the Red men better then the tyranny of my brothers.