I was 12 when I started playing guitar with my brothers.

Mine is not a traditional music, but it comes from a tradition.

Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon. Whoever wrote and sang in the song form I have appreciated.

Groundhog Day is a lot like a rock concert but the people are better behaved and there's a groundhog involved.

The sound has grown and sweetened over the years as well, and you can hear it on many of my recordings and, most likely, will see and hear me playing it if you come to a live show.

My musical heroes are people like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie who wrote and sang real songs for real people; for everyone, old, young, and in between.

Our kindness may be the most persuasive argument for that which we believe.

Emotional pain was the price I paid on the path to becoming a woman. So excuse me if I’m not clueless like a little girl.

All our thinking is of this nature, a free play with concepts.

Theres nothing to fear but fears themselves, such as monsters, rejection, food poisoning, redundancy, monsters, and oxford commas.

Love is always creative, fear always destructive.

Precisely this is godliness--that there are gods, but no God.

Love hurts." Oh, shut UP!" - pg 123

I feel humbled by the fact that there's any interest in me at all.

Evil was seductive and easy, and virtue was difficult and unappreciated.

In the context of Quaker worship, it is perfectly appropriate for any person in the congregation to speak a timely word from the Lord.