I really kind of set the bar really low, so I don't get disappointed.

Just so you know, we're on the good side with y'all. We do not want this war, this violence. And we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas.

We only have one rule and that is there are no rules, so stand up and sing as much as you want to.

I'm not the greatest communicator. I kind of internalize a lot.

Usually right when I'm feeling it, right when it's happening, I always find I need to be in some sort of survival mode or mature mom mode, so it always seems to come later that I have the breakdown.

If something or someone's really bugging you, just sit on it. Just sit on it.

I'm still in the Dixie Chicks; we haven't broken up... I love the Dixie Chicks; it's the most fun I've ever had in my life. It was like winning the lottery.

I see life everywhere I look. I get the energy off the water.

I would feel like my life was a success if my children grow into well-adjusted, happy, functioning members of society. Capable and happy and normal.

We want to be true to ourselves, and honest to the fans and to ourselves.

I'm not good at multi-tasking.

Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.

New York is obviously the capital of theater.

I'm ever curious about the world. I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. Having a vivid imagination is also a plus.

I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.

Alas! the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe.

A lot of Arabs have proven to themselves that there is an alternative to Bin Laden-ism if they want to do away with the corrupt, autocratic regimes in their countries.

People spend their lives searching for their one true love, their other half. I found mine in college, dancing in a fraternity house driveway. Lucky for me, she found me right back.

There is evidence for the deity of Jesus -- good, strong, historical , cumulative evidence; evidence to which an honest person can subscribe without committing intellectual suicide.

Almost never does a single company have excellence in a multiplicity of disciplines.

People are running, running, but there is no place in the world to which they can flee to escape themselves. Ultimately, each one must face himself.