If I'm going to be held captive by social media, I'm going to use it against itself.

I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world.

Making music should not be left to the professionals.

As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I've been traveling.

I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.

When I grow up I want to be an old woman.

I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make.

Vengeance and revenge are just two words for pain.

Music is too important to be left to professionals.

I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.

I'm one of the few that comes from this vantage point: I never tried to get a record deal.

Delaying is the most dangerous thing you can do in business.

Nana always said the rain was Nature's way of adding sparkle to the outdoors.

I think if a poet wanted to lead, he or she would want the message to be unequivocally clear and free of ambiguity. Whereas poetry is actually the home of ambiguity, ambivalence and uncertainty.

A flower is your cousin...Sometimes a person has got to take a life, like a chicken's or a hog's when you need it...But nobody is so hungry they need to kill a flower. Cherokee great-grandmother

When you can't think of anything else, photograph graffiti, nudes, or plants.

Putting affects the nerves more than anything. I would actually get nauseated over three-footers.

I was home schooled in high school but was definitely the nerd in middle school.

You can't teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what they need to know when they need to know it.

War determines not who is right but who is left.

Amiability is very often a weakness, but the most unobjectionable one as a rule.