I just consider myself lucky that I've been a musician this long and not had to find another job.

Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.

A man doesn't need to be flawless to be a perfect father, but the commitment to his family is a precious responsibility.

Don't ever discount the wonder of your tears. They can be healing waters and a stream of joy. Sometimes they are the best words the heart can speak.

Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved.

Grace doesn't depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors.

I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships, so will our healing.

Life takes a bit of time and a lot of relationship.

those who are afraid of freedom are those who cannot trust us to live in them. Trying to keep the law is actually a declaration of independence, a way of keeping control

Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive.

So many believe that it is love that grows, but it is the knowing that grows and love simply expands to contain it.

Women are the most powerful and beautiful power in the world.

Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.

This general eclipse of ambition and determination and fortitude, all of the very qualities on which I have prided myself, is ridiculous, and, I must admit, somewhat obscene.

I don't know what she's thinking, but I'm thinking how fluid the border is between crazy and interesting, and how hard it is to decide who belongs where.

A good spicy challenge strikes a balance between flavour and fear.

Love is all there is, it makes the world go around. Love and only love, it can't be denied.

You'll not be in heaven if you're not leaning on the arm of someone you have helped.

My husband used to shout at my mother, 'What is wrong with your daughter? I'm married to a man.'

I find it so much easier to be creatively free at night. Daytime is for sleeping. Nighttime is the best time for making art. The later at night it gets the further into another world you go.

I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got me in. That was my audition.