I'm trying to learn how to tap into the power of my own being. I know it sounds corny.

I'm fascinated by the whole concept of snake handling. When you read about the Pentecostal snake handlers, what strikes you the most is their commitment.

I'm just like everyone. I like to feel togetherness with someone.

So few people are truly themselves when they're in the spotlight.

I'm not just a doormat. I'm not just being stepped on all over the place. If you look at the bulk of my material, it's about trying to find some strength through that.

People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.

As it turns out, now is the moment you've been waiting for

I guess you could write a good song if your heart hadn't been broken, but I don't know of anyone whose heart hasn't been broken.

The perfect man? A poet on a motorcycle.

First thing, I throw on some jeans, a T-shirt and my Keds sneakers and make coffee. That is actually my favorite time of day. That is when I do my songwriting, when I am in writing mode.

Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don’t want it.

It's not getting it right the first time--it's learning to do it right and then not getting lazy.

There is something strangely ecstatic, oddly fascinating and infinitely magnetic about unrequited love.

If you dare take the challenge, you will possess the courage to conquer.

Strength, both physical and spiritual, is the product of struggle!

You have to push through every barrier to get to the mountain top.

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Primarily, every rule change over the past ten years has been against the pitchers - lowering the mound and the designated hitter.

The absence of pain means death, so when something no longer bothers you, you've died to that thing.

Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startles out wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.

I'm not anxious to starve myself. For me, it's not at all sexy to be ultra-thin.