I think humans are only capable of small moments of honesty. Then they get tired and back away. It's something to foster, this ability to keep it for longer. How to keep being honest and aware.

If you can't get what you want, you end up doing something else, just to get some relief. Just to keep from going crazy. Because when you're sad enough, you look for ways to fill you up.

Art is what gets us beyond what is real. It makes reality more real. It also shortens the distance we gotta travel to see how connected we are.

And I bet it's harder than people think, isn't it? Everything looks so simple from a distance. Then, the more you look, the more you see. And that's when you have to rise to the challenge.

Only in a place like this do earth and sky come together in such a way that they bridge into one, and in such a place a person could put up her arms and find herself in heaven.

Beware of those who are stingy, for they would rather sting you than give you anything.

I suppose you can't hold on to old things just for the sake of holding on.

Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.

I see myself continuing to be a songwriter and a motivator and someone that has grown in her faith.

Heaven and earth fight in vain against a dunce!

When I was 17 - 16, my father and I cut wood all day long and I was swinging that crosscut saw and hauling wood.

It creeps up on you and becomes an obsession. It comes out of watching a million movies.

God grant me the serenity to accept that people are ignorant, the courage to uphold the law when I'm hostile, & the wisdom to realize that murder is illegal.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call to make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

My mother raised me in the church. I was not allowed to stay home on Sunday; there was no option. I sang in the choir all the way up until I went to college.