I left my family, and I left my brother and sister, and I went and lived my dream. I saw everybody, but is it ever enough?

My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am.

You got nothing to lose. You don't lose when you lose fake friends.

Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t do something. Make your own victories. Make your own mistakes.

Girls have got balls. They're just a little higher up, that's all.

Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want to do. Sometimes people call that rebellion, especially when you're a woman.

I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do.

You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don't, if you walk out onstage complacent, that's not a good thing.

I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules.

Success isn't one straight line - it's a ladder, and there's always another rung above you to reach out for. Like anything else, there are ups and downs.

I don't give a damn about my reputation. You're living in the past, it's a new generation.

I look at people who aren’t us and I hate them.

If we have no mercy toward others, that is one proof that we have never experienced God’s mercy.

I think we have to choose, what are the issues that really matter? We have to trust that.

If September 11th has taught us anything, it's certainly that the world has never been so interdependent. It is impossible now to be an island of prosperity in a sea of despair.

When you're my age, you'll see that it is wiser to make your own decisions than let time make decisions for you.

When I have the beard on I have people behind me in traffic honking their horn. I'm thinking "how in the world?" But it's the beard - it's kind of the stand out thing.

I did learn a great deal about my husband but I also learned something about myself: I made a wise choice. I think he's a good man.

By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men.

Every guitar I own gets used and has its purpose.

Drinking helps us to forget what we are, we leave the office and walk straight to the bar.