I'm old-school. I want to be there to drop off my daughter at school and pick her up.

When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?

I have three siblings. My sister makes music. My older brother is a classical conductor, and my younger brother is a mixing engineer.

You should try to get what you want in life and try not to be limited.

I learn so much from writing with other musicians, asking questions about their playing style and gear, and hanging out, too.

I want to work on some more complicated baking... and it would be interactive!

The guys in my band are great-we watch movies, we eat pizza, take walks, read books. Everybody has a really great sense of humor. And my boyfriend comes and visits me on the road.

My overnight success was really 15 years in the making. I'd been writing songs since I was 6 and playing in bands and performing since I was 14.

When all the stars were falling, they fell from above, and I thought of hate, and I thought of hate, and then I thought of love.

You tried to hide between the lines of a story never told.

If we all leap before we crawl, we might fall.

When you look for a man- what you want to look for is a man with the heart of a poor boy and the mind of a conqueror.

it is (often) the quiet gesture which carries the most significance - the one which suddenly directs the symphony.

Help when you can. Give what you have. Do what you must. Be who you ought to be.

I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard just to go bankrupt. I happened to write some jokes about it. I did real well for myself.

If you have no soul you can gut it out. You know, like a marionette, you'll just follow what seems to actually give you whatever you ain't got.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

If you don't remember history accurately, how can you learn?

The gods do make playthings of us ... but it is we mortals who provide them with the tools.

After independence was gained, one of the first Acts passed by the Greek government was for the protection and preservation of national monuments.

This common prayer project has taken years of energy, but we see it not as a way to leave our individual churches, but as a movement we hope to see permeate the larger Church.