I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest.

Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.

If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.

Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing.

And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.

I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music.

I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.

We got CEOs making 200 times the worker's pay, but they'll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage.

I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.

This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.

I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most people have had that, or they wouldn't be human.

Everyone has got something to gift. Your gift lies in the flame of your soul.

In the midst of life’s ups and down, beginnings and endings, let us live our life, let us be joyful, let us be happy.

I am a merchant of dreams who sells you for free.

Country is run by... financial powers & corporate interests [who] send their lawyers to Congress to make laws so that they don't have to pay taxes

God's plans for you are better than any plans you have for yourself. So don't be afraid of God's will, even if it's different from yours.

When I started Netscape I was brand new out of college and all the aspects of building a business, like balance sheets and hiring people, were new to me.

I don't watch many comic-book movies. But I loved 'Sin City.'

The only good life is one in which there is no need for miracles.

I'm not giving you any options here. We're doing this, Eva. Enjoy your last remaining hours as a single woman.

There is no substitute for face-to-face reporting and research.