If you don't know what makes green, you're going to try every color combination.

The smile on your face lets me know that you need me, there's a truth in your heart that says you'll never leave me, and the touch of your hand says you'll catch me whenever I fall.

I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me.

That's what I love. Not being interrupted, sitting in a car by myself and listening to music in the rain. There are so many great songs yet to sing

The grand old lady of bluegrass? Well, wouldn't that be a wonderful title to have? I hope I do enough to earn it some day

Lyrics are kind of the whole thing; it's the message. Something might have a beautiful melody but if it's not the truth coming out of your mouth, it's not appealing

I don't look for bliss, just contentment.

Growing up I used to love bands like Free and ELO and the Rolling Stones. When Robert Plant got in touch it made perfect sense to me.

I'm much better at fixing or changing a melody to suit me than I would a lyric. But for me, everything is lyric. It has to be true for me to say it.

Whenever I've chosen a song because it's clever, it's always turned out to be a mistake.

My parents made us do everything, try everything.

When you have the grace to speak, declare sacred-utterances.

People whose dancing have brought joy to our hearts are born once in a century. We had MJ.

Oh yes, well, I find myself unconventional everywhere.

Ive come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs.

I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like living in a foreign country.

Whatever storm was brewing, I'd find it and fight it. If it was the price of being with Curran, then I would pay it. He was worth it.

I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good statistics.

Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings lean'd to Virtue's side.

I spent my childhood in Newfoundland and then my junior high and high school years in Alberta, Canada.

Given continued high rates of population increase, all environmental victories are temporary.