If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.

Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.

America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept anymore.

I don't believe that songwriting has to be profound, but I truly believe that it's a crime for you to go outta your way for it not to be.

I have a low tolerance for mediocrity in music and life. I'm into pain and joy and the in-between doesn't interest me.

Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre.

All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of learning the craft.

You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.

Every day on Earth is another chance to get it right.

I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.

To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship.

Morality does not come from a book, it comes from the human mind.

To be authentic literally means to be your own author.

I'm blessed by the fact I only need five hours of sleep on a daily basis. I do tend to regard Saturday and Sunday as work days.

The little cares that fretted me, I lost them yesterday Among the fields above the sea, Among the winds at play.

A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it, than by the woods and swamps that surround it.

Hearing that the same men who brought us 'South Park' were mounting a musical to be called 'The Book of Mormon,' we were tempted to turn away, as from an inevitable massacre.

But I knew one more thing. That people w ho denied who they were or where they had been were in the greatest danger.

Habit keeps my life going, with occasional pushes from desire.

As an actress I feel that if you start to impose your own inhibitions, then you are not doing your job.

When I was younger, I would eat everything.