I love Mary Chapin Carpenter songs. I love her songs 'Come On, Come On' and 'I Am A Town', they're two of my favorite songs.

Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin?

There's a lot of maintenance that goes into being a professional singer.

The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life.

I was hugely relieved to discover there was a purpose for girls with loud voices.

Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do.

Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate.

When there's an opportunity to do more, we must.

It's just a little ranch. Thirty-five acres. In Texas, if it's not a thousand acres, it's considered a ranchette.

The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people.

I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege.

Our heart is wide enough to embrace the world and hands are long enough to encompass the world.

I wouldn't want to be Superman. Batman would be cool. But the one I've always wanted to play is the Joker. There is a maniacal and dangerous side to me.

Just for the record, how I feel right now is very terrific.

Don't live life as a spectator.

God will not take shelter behind a jugglery of logic or metaphysics. He is neither a schoolman nor theologian, but our Father in Heaven.

God cannot be explained... God can only be lived.

I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling we've got, which is "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey." I told those stories many, many times.

I don't care how rich and successful a man is. He's nothing without an education.

Love dies because its birth was an error.

In meditative prayer, one thinks and speaks not only with the mind and lips, but in a certain sense with one's whole being... All good meditative prayer is a conversation of our entire self to God.