If I'm dreaming please don't wake me up cause baby I can't get enough of what you do.

The teacher wonders but she doesn't ask It's hard to see the pain behind the mask Bearing the burden of a secret storm Sometimes she wishes she was never born

In my daughter's eyes, I am a hero, I am strong and wise, and I know no fear, but the truth is plain to see, she was sent to rescue me, I see who I want to be, in my daughter's eyes.

Love's the only house big enough for all the pain in the world.

I grew up in the country surrounded by music.

I am happy that women can relate to my songs, and hopefully men can too.

Baby, I've tried to find a place inside your heart. Oh, but it's hard to start a fire without a spark.

I think we should all be tolerant of each other and embrace each others' strengths and differences and uniqueness and beauty.

Every show, every audience is different, and I just love leaving the venue feeling like we all know each other a little bit better.

I believe everything in moderation. But breakfast is important. I have two hard-boiled or scrambled eggs with whole-wheat toast and try to get some fruit in there.

I listen to music I'm looking to record or catch up on news and TV, whatever is on the TV at the gym!

I believe that each of our lives has a purpose. You have something to do that is unique to you.

Every character in a story, I thought when I had folded up the phone, has both a purpose and a secret purpose.

Evil things are easy things: for they are natural to our fallen nature. Right things are rare flowers that need cultivation.

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.

There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans.

Even though I am a mathematician, I look at [fetal development] with marvel: How do these instruction sets not make mistakes as they build what is us?

Write. Write until it stops hurting.

I'd rather be mad than feel pleasure.

The more you own, the more you know you don't own.

Mostly every shirt and cover you see has come from my mind.