I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.

I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world.

Making music should not be left to the professionals.

As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I've been traveling.

I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.

When I grow up I want to be an old woman.

I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make.

Vengeance and revenge are just two words for pain.

Music is too important to be left to professionals.

I'm one of the few that comes from this vantage point: I never tried to get a record deal.

Prayer is so incredibly powerful. It keeps you in perfect peace.

Too often we see the Bible through whatever lens we get from our culture.

Parenting is about being competent and responsible. It's not about gender, necessarily.

When you ain’t got no money, you got the blues.

Please pray & wish me well (in hearing session). All I want is to clear my name and return to the badminton.

Words have incredible power. They can make people's hearts soar, or they can make people's hearts sore.

We now have the sweetest, kindest and most generous fans from far away places - it’s a real privilege.

While knowledge of tools and the love of motif may be in your backpack, and all mountains may be measured by their previous heroes, art must exist for you in a place beyond the judgment of others.

The young are so much more vulnerable than the old - the stuff is still warm and malleable, it takes impressions.

Filmmaking is not a balancing act, although some directors think it is. I don't believe in it. I like ups and downs. They're the best way to translate my feelings to the screen.