It hurts to want everything and nothing at the same time.

I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.

I was so adamant about proving myself for so long and I've gotten to the point where I don't have to do that as much.

When I'm having a bad day, I pick up my guitar.

I feel connected to whatever is out there.

I followed my heart and figured that if I tried and failed, at least Id know that I tried.

I was drifting away like a drop in the ocean, and now I realize that nothing has been as beautiful as when I saw heaven's skies.

I have a pirate fetish-I just always thought eye patches were sexy. If you want to get my attention, wear a pirate outfit.

Eventually my goal is get a place in Ojai where I can have animals and a big garden. Just drink wine all day and hang in my garden.

Something about the way you looked at me made me think for a moment that maybe we were meant to be .

I put myself into character for my songs.

I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.

Pure morality is only an instinctive adjustment which the soul makes.

I've come up with my own cure for a closed mind: try it once, and see.

If you treat an animal right, they don't run away. They're not like us. They run away from people they don't trust; most times we run away from ourselves.

There are people in this administration who say they don't care if the UN sinks under the East river, and other crude things.

I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am.

There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception.

If you're not living I mean really living, you're dead already.

The notion is called wabi-sabi life, like the cherry blossom, it is beautiful because of its impermanence, not in spite of it, more exquisite for the inevitability of loss.

Sitting and watching a game show, or betting on your lucky numbers is not the price that most of the top 1% paid to become rich