I've always been a very prolific writer.

Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!

Your own voice is the voice that carries you through life the best.

Live well. Sing out, sing loud, and sing often. And God bless the child that's got a song.

I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.

It was nice to focus on things outside of my body. Music has always done that for me.

I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist.

For far too long, the female gender has been plagued with stereotypes, typecasting, as well as, subtle and blatant discrimination.

We don't mind working hard to be successful. We don't mind working to be at our best.

As long as you have a garden you have a future and as long as you have a future you are alive.

That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.

Liberty means more to me than life itself.

My role as a producer is very specific. It's maintaining the creative truthfulness, day in and day out.

Where are the feasts we were promised? Where is the wine, the new wine, dying on the vine.

Small groups or communities may be far more oppressive to the individual than larger ones. Men are in many ways freer in large cities than in small villages.

It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano.

With correction, and given the chance, 'Terra Nova' can and will deliver seasons of transcendent images and story-telling. 'Terra Nova' is the Hubble Telescope of television.