I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.

If you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.

It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey.

I'm on a seafood diet - I see food, I eat it.

I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

Holiness was always something richly dim.

He looked different in sleep, beautiful but cold as moonlight. I found myself wishing he would wake so that I might watch the life return.

You pull the trigger just for fun, forgetting I'm a loaded gun. So hate me for the things I've done, and not for what I've now become.

If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.

The Republican Party is extremely pro-women.

I wasn't really asleep I was just meditating on unconsciousness.

I really feel kind of guilty spending 80 million dollars. People are starving in the world.

I inherited good skin from my mother, and I stay away from soap, which dries it out.

I'll take 14 out of 15 any day of the week, any week of the month, any month of the year, any year of the century. I don't know what comes after century.

Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.