I like to feel that every day or most days, I do a little bit of writing. I am a creature of habit in terms of the way I live.

You know, that single girl life and that sense of isolation - that doesn't leave you just like that. And that's what that song is about. I remember that, and that is imprinted on me, that sense.

It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

In this world, you've a soul for a compass and a heart for a pair of wings.

Emmy Lou Harris introduced me to the work of the Vietnam Veterans of America foundation and the Campaign for a Land Mine Free World.

Carry with you maps and string, flashlights, friends who make you sing, and stars to help you find your place, music, hope, and amazing grace.

Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium.

Life is never a straight line - it's peaks and valleys. Why would you want to be the same person every day of your life?

We all have two lives. The one we are given and the one we create.

Was it a light only she could see? A gypsy's spell? A mystery?

Every sleepy boy and girl in every bed around the world- Can hear the stars up in the sky whispering a lullaby

I like pot, I enjoy pot, I like to smoke it. But, the one thing I don't like about pot is the subculture it's spawned. I think it's embarrassing and really juvenile and uncreative

Eventually you'll take the phrases and rhythm patterns you've copped and begin to put your own mark on them

When you're certain you cannot be fooled, you become easy to fool.

My books are based on emotions, feelings, relationships. In these areas women are experts, so it's not strange that the main characters of my novels are females.

There have been openings, but I have not interviewed for any jobs, nor do I want to right now.

Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.

Search out the wisdom of nature, there is depth in all her doings; she seemeth prodigal of power, yet her rules are the maxims of frugality.

Children are sent to school to be civilized, to learn to be part of the social enterprise.

Paradoxically, to be truly idle, you also have to be efficient.

I am convinced that the modular structure of the Mir will be the main trend in manned orbital stations development in the next century