If you don't have story to tell the public at large - you have to be able to sort of go listen.

The essential elements of singing are voice, musicianship, and story. It is the rare artist that has all three in abundance.

The thing you have to be prepared for is that other people don't always dream your dream.

The only reason to be with somebody is that they make you a better person and you make them a better person.

Somewhere out there, beneath the pale moonlight, someone's thinking of me and loving me tonight.

Everywhere you go, there's a soundtrack. You can't really quite hear it. It's just a little out of the range of hearing.

When the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky.

Even though I know how very far apart we are, it helps to think we might be wishing underneath the same bright star.

Ninety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing.

I think musicians are always supportive of each other because they want the groove to keep going on. They just basically want to play music.

I think there's mind in nature. There's a power in nature, and there's a universal power that you'd better not ignore.

Live in a dignified way with nobility, pride, strength, and kindness.

One of the characteristics of humility is the ability to take the second place without striving for self-promotion

She had known the kind of love that was worth risking everything for, the kind of love that was as rare as a glimpse of heaven.

Everyone loves to slander everyone, and indulge in it willingly at anytime and anywhere.

I have seen enough. I am ready to see the world die.

let the wind change direction a little bit, and their cries turned to whispers.

If beauty is truth, why don't women go to the library to have their hair done?

It is not the germs we need worry about. It is our inner terrain.

The great challenge is to refuse to let the bad things that happen to us do bad things to us. That is the crucial difference between adversity and tragedy.

It made me realize again how complicated being a mother is. You have 50 million heartbreaking moments, and 100 million beautiful, joyous ones.