I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out.

Everything worth doing starts with being scared.

They say in the darkest night there is a light beyond

You jump right over anything in the past, and you don't analyze problems.

By my 40s, I finally got out of my own way, so I could become a life creator; a life giver.

I have the feeling that in a balanced life one should die penniless. The trick is dismantling.

In the tradition of great female artists, Karla Bonoff, Bonnie Raitt, Christine McVie, Shawn Colvin, Sarah McLachlan....now enter Maia Sharp.

Yes, I like that word. "More" is a prayer to God, isn't it? Gratitude and plea, all in one.

We'd go to the fraternity house. It was a good place to practice. But we really wanted the kids to overhear us. And whoever heard us would go nuts over it.

I'm the kind of person who can hear that stuff. If you sing along to the radio and you're not going to sing unison with the melody, but find the harmony, I find that pretty easy to do.

I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it.

If we contest with a lesser opponent, we reduce ourselves, and in the process wind up being lesser accomplished.

I've always had such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them but I can't relax them.

Football combines the two worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

I grew up with a family that had very little and were at times homeless.

Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force

People change, no use getting sentimental about it. Move on, find someone else.

Blessed be the slot players for theirs is the hope of a better day dawning.

We are taught not to perceive but to avoid direct perceptions of reality and to substitute instead this kind of one-dimensional view of life.

I met my fathers in prison, they too a part of a scene; digging death.

I want to be an integrated woman.