I needed to carve out my own place and find out what I was going to do

The key to change is to let go of fear.

Just a thank you is a mighty powerful prayer. Says it all.

Reading inspirational and motivational quotes daily is like taking my vitamins.

I was down with Lucinda Williams and Mary Chapin-Carpenter. We did an acoustic tour, just the three of us, three chicks and three guitars

For the first time in 23 years I'm enjoying the process of supporting it, of going out and doing shows, and doing the interviews, and doing everything.

I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate.

For me, art is a more trustworthy expression of God than religion.

If a relationship is founded on love it doesn't end

I was angry at my parents when I had to have brain surgery, that they weren't still around, because no matter how old you are you want you parents when you're going through something like that.

Loss is the great unifier, the terrible club to which we all eventually belong.

We are products of their weaknesses or strengths.

We fear something before we hate it

Their attention was focused on the strange kid who wore black eyeliner and dressed as if every day was a funeral.

Sometimes words ruin everything.

God blesses his people with extravagant grace so they might extend his extravagant glory to all peoples on the earth

Soul winners are not soul winners because of what they know, but because of Who they know, and how well they know Him, and how much they long for others to know Him.

I've always been religiously inclined, but it doesn't come up in most of my books.

Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away.

The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.

Things don’t have to end. They can begin again.