Life is never a straight line - it's peaks and valleys. Why would you want to be the same person every day of your life?

You know, that single girl life and that sense of isolation - that doesn't leave you just like that. And that's what that song is about. I remember that, and that is imprinted on me, that sense.

It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

In this world, you've a soul for a compass and a heart for a pair of wings.

Emmy Lou Harris introduced me to the work of the Vietnam Veterans of America foundation and the Campaign for a Land Mine Free World.

Carry with you maps and string, flashlights, friends who make you sing, and stars to help you find your place, music, hope, and amazing grace.

Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium.

We all have two lives. The one we are given and the one we create.

Was it a light only she could see? A gypsy's spell? A mystery?

Every sleepy boy and girl in every bed around the world- Can hear the stars up in the sky whispering a lullaby

Some people say that you should not tempt fate and for them I cannot disagree, but I never learned anything from playing it safe. I say fate should not tempt me.

We read to know we're not alone.

Chyna Shepherd, untouched and alive and able to pee.

A treaty cannot be made which alters the Constitution of the country, or which infringes and express exceptions to the power of the Constitution.

Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.

The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.

It's very hard for adults to maintain respect and romance so that a love affair can be sustained over years.

I think we are all the sum of that which has happened in our lives. And if you're successful, it would be wrong to think that you'd be more successful had something been easier. That's not a given.

The best way to honor your dreams is to get them done!

You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it.

We truly could have used the later Jobs in earlier years at Apple, is what I feel.