I'm not a dogmatic Christian and I don't believe in the Bible literally, but I realized that Jesus is basically a very Zen dude.

I'm into a lot of Eastern philosophy. It's kind of like theosophy; it's about finding the relationships between all the great religions and focusing in on the good stuff.

I'm definitely a victim of some weird twisted form of not really relating to female musicians.

A part of being a female musician is kind of getting past your looks and just honing in on the music.

A mother gives you a life, a mother-in-law gives you her life.

My body has certainly wandered a good deal but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.

You might as well not be alive if you're not in awe of God.

Time is the River on which the leaves of our thoughts are carried into oblivion.

You don't need to get rid of religion; you have to outgrow the need for it. In other words, instead of hoping for the good life, you make the good life.

Any large-scale organization must lose some of the merits of its rudimentary beginnings. Quantity will have a coarsening effect on quality.

America is a very special place. In this country, you have the best and the worst at the same time. Whatever you can imagine.

You sort of can't talk about the post production unless you talk about what comes first.

Anybody running beats anybody walking, and anybody walking beats anybody sitting.

Philosophy is the microscope of thought.