I tried to please people instead of believing in my own strength, until the only thing I could do was walk away.

Everybody wants to write a hit song, but in Nashville people want to write the best song, which was my original intention as a singer/songwriter.

I do love to perform. And I'm ever so grateful that this has turned into a job with a future.

A Grammy is a wonderful thing; all of a sudden you're given a new audience but, like anything, you have to be able to grow with these songs if you really want a long artistic career.

I was part of the first wave of singer/songwriters but I was also in that first wave of singer/songwriters who experienced the music industry when technology started to take over.

I didn't not perform.

Don't cry out loud, keep it inside, learn how to hide your feelings. Fly high and proud, and if you should fall, remember you almost had it all.

You know, somebody mentioned that I was sort of a jazz-pop singer. And I'm thrilled that somebody would find that, at last, in my presentation, because it's such a part of where I live.

Where the bodily presence is weak and the speech contemptible, surely there cannot be error in making written language the medium of better utterance than faltering lips can achieve?

You can not avoid life or your thoughts you can only make the best of your current situation and move on with a positive mental attitude.

The sea was as dark as dreams and as deep as sleep.

No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship.

The modern media environment is so overrun with bullshit and static and people trying to sell you stupid crap. It makes you want to bite yourself.

Every hero doesn't do this great big hero thing. They do the simple thing over and over... and they stick to it.

And neither shall we learn to war with ourselves anymore.

If we're going to fight a disease, let's fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference.

I was very politicized always. I was very conservative politically, because I'd seen what the communists did to my country.

We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer.