I found it was really impossible for me to write songs when I couldn't sing.

The key to change is to let go of fear.

Just a thank you is a mighty powerful prayer. Says it all.

Reading inspirational and motivational quotes daily is like taking my vitamins.

I was down with Lucinda Williams and Mary Chapin-Carpenter. We did an acoustic tour, just the three of us, three chicks and three guitars

For the first time in 23 years I'm enjoying the process of supporting it, of going out and doing shows, and doing the interviews, and doing everything.

I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate.

For me, art is a more trustworthy expression of God than religion.

If a relationship is founded on love it doesn't end

I was angry at my parents when I had to have brain surgery, that they weren't still around, because no matter how old you are you want you parents when you're going through something like that.

Loss is the great unifier, the terrible club to which we all eventually belong.

Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?

Psychiatrists today . . . see the irrational hostility that people everywhere vent upon one another as chiefly projected self-hate.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else.

Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.

I once dated someone who worked at McDonald's. She came up and asked if I wanted a Big Mac.

Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren.

I've been around racing a fairly long time, but when it comes to the important issues, I'm happy to let others make the big decisions.

Many of my poems try to use a comic element to reach a place that isn't comic at all. The comic element works as a surprise. It is unexpected and energizing.

He smiles but rarely and watches other men to see when they laugh and then does the same.