I've been through some dark times but I've experienced joy too. Now that joy can't be suppressed.

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

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

To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child is the secret of chivalry.

Phronesis is a beautiful virtue, practise it and you shall reap the rewards…

Blind with love, my daughter has cried nightly for horses, those long-necked marchers and churners that she has mastered, any and all, reigning them in like a circus hand.

My favorite scary movie was always 'Halloween.' I love that there's hidden emotion underneath Michael Myers' psychotic behavior. Plus, he has the best mask, hands-down.

Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.

Technology can be used that way and it can also be used in other ways.

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

A friend is not the one that will kill for you, but the one that will die for you

It is only the sacred things that are worth touching

Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!