I don't know where my songs come from... If I knew, I'd know too much, more than we are allowed on this plane.

I may like the Blizzard best, of all the songs I have written

The powerful men in my life have always believed in me: my husband, my son

Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other.

I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me.

Irish Alzheimer's: you forget everything except the grudges

Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.

When inspiration does not come, I go for a walk, go to the movie, talk to a friend, let go... The muse is bound to return again, especially if I turn my back!

Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get.

I was raised to speak out about politics and the world around me. I would do it whether I was in the public or not. It is the way I was taught. The American way

It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.

All in good time is something Cosmic Ordering does not follow.

Can you imagine life without a book?

The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.

We must be free or die who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake the faith and morals hold Which Milton held.

Always, always pursue happiness.

There are none so low but they have their triumphs. Small successes suffice for small souls.

Whether our work is art or science or the daily work of society, it is only the form in which we explore our experience which is different.

It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.

You don't have to be educated to be a president.