I just wrote a book. But don't go and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished.

One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.

Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last.

Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.

There are good days and there are bad days, and this is one of them.

One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers.

I realized some of the pitfalls of being well-known; it was nice if you were successful, but it made it just that much harder to take when you failed.

I knew nothing of the life of a real musician, of course, but somehow I seemed to see myself standing in front of great crowds of people, playing my accordion.

Night after night I could feel the chills go up and down my spine, they played so well.

Many times I wondered if I were truly carrying out God's plan for my life.

If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.

Most women would each be left with fewer dreams or without a dream, if the institution of marriage were to be abolished.

I have to go. I have a finite amount of life left and I don't want to spend it arguing with you.

I'm silent when there is a war inside me. There's a need to keep the people outside intact.

For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to terms with what's happened to the former Yugoslavia.

A text without a context is a pretext for a proof text.

I love in you everybody, I love through you the world, I love in you also myself.

If married couples did not live together, happy marriages would be more frequent.

You have to write a song around this specific character or to enhance a specific scene. A lot of other craft goes on.

Sometimes the most intelligent thing is not to do anything, certainly nothing loaded with the imbecility of emotionality.