It's taken me years to embrace the softer elements of who I am and let that shine some.

You can't roll a joint on an iPod, buy vinyl.

I think a lot of people think that my parents' deaths is why I write such sad songs, but that's not true. Those songs may just be the woman I am.

Be exceptional. Make tremendous efforts to be extraordinary. What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute your unique donation to humankind. Just make sure you do so.

I feel like I've kind of gotten to a peaceful place in my heart.

So it's the greatest compliment in the world when people want to hear you sing. That means it feels good to them, so I keep doing it.

I am very picky about my people and my beer.

I've pretty much run the circle of labels and dealing with that whole kind of battle, because you're the one creating the music, but you're not the final say. That's always been hard.

I like rules that are broken.

I like to make great albums.

I didn't go to college.

Two steps forward...one step back...I've always hated that old cliche too...I believe that we should all be able to dance through life and only change the tempo now and then.

I got up with my wife, I sat down at the computer when she went to work, and I didn't stop until she got home.

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'

That's the problem in politics. One wrong word and it's over.

The precursor of the mirror is the mother's face.

God has nothing to say to the self-righteous.

We are deceived by the appearance of right.

Love has no awareness of merit or demerit; it has no scale... Love loves; this is its nature.

I live in a state of hypersensitivity, and I've always had this feeling that something bad is going to happen to myself, or my wife and children. This manifests itself in different fears and visions.

Over coffee and orange juice the embryonic suicide brightens visibly.