I think kids who have music in their lives are more focused. They have better attention spans. They excel more in their studies. They have a better sense of self-esteem and self-worth.

Maybe I think you're cute and funny. Maybe I wanna do what bunnies do with you, if you know what I mean.

I love you more than I could ever promise because you take me the way I am.

If you wait for someone else's hand, you will surely fall down.

When I said I was born a feminist, I was born thinking woman are equal to men, if not stronger than men. That's the way I always was.

I've never been one to get up on a soapbox and preach. I just live my life the way I live my life.

Happy is the Heart that still feels Pain

Music to me is something that I didn't choose; it was a necessity. I grew up with music, my father is a musician. It makes me happy; it makes people happy.

It should be like a driver's license - no one can have an Instagram until they're 18. It's the wild, wild west, the internet.

For as long as we can trace back human life, there's always been some sort of music - ceremonies, rituals. It's part of the human makeup.

I think just letting go is a really good thing to do in many areas of your life, songwriting included.

I pity you all... Most of you will die---scratch that---ALL of you.

Where music leads, I follow.

The burden of living one’s own life is experiencing sensations that no one else can share.

Only what is essential must be said.

I want to be a children’s hero… Children need heroes because heroes give hope; without hope they have no future.

Fear is a terrible thing. It makes you do awful things.

New things had to be made out of fragments.

I don't have a television set up [in the mountains], of course, but I find I don't miss it at all, or the newspaper. I've sneaked a radio into by cabin, but I find I turn it on very rarely.

Going to my shows, it's like a religious experience, because you come out, you go in one person, you come out a different person.

[Jesus] invoked a different kind of power: love, not coercion.