Life NEVER slows down.

It was at the beginning of all this tabloid frenzy. Our garbage was being gone through, and we were involved in all these chases getting home, and people camping out on our property to get pictures.

I never had that star aura.

You'll be a good parent when you're ready to no longer be selfish. Until I was about 35, it was all about me. I look back and I'm astonished at how I lived my life - it was totally self-involved.

I never had that reputation of being not accessible.

Thank God I didn't have my children until I was a little bit older.

I just thought that I had had my fill for a while and wanted to have a family. My husband was moving to Chicago for his job. And so I went along. And it was a great thing that I did.

It always made me sad that there were kids who didn't have homes.

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heartfelt truth. The true poet is very near the oracle.

Some women blush when they are kissed some call for the police some swear some bite. But the worst are those who laugh.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

At the end of life, at the end of YOUR life, what essence emerges? What have you filled the world with? In remembering you, what words will others choose?

Take naps. Often new ideas come together when you are half asleep, but you have to train yourself to remember them.

Don't be like those people who believe in "positive thinking" and tell themselves that they're loved and strong and capable. You don't need to do that because you know it already.

It is a tremendous freedom to get rid of all self-considerat ion and learn to care about only one thing-the relationship between Christ and ourselves.

It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band.

We need people to really stand for faith and trust, not hope and change.

The Hank Williams Syndrome: Come to Nashville, write some good songs, cut some hit records, make money, take all the drugs you can and drink all you can, become a wild man and all of a sudden die.