Love is donating a chunk of your life to patch up holes in the life of another.

When I count my blessings, I find you in every one.

I love you" means I want you to be happy.

Music is happiness with a steady pulse.

Alas, impatience is but another form of unhappiness. It is true, it is true. I have never met a happy impatient person.

Happiness is never in a rush. If you move too fast, you leave it behind.

Laugh and smile for no reason at all. Giggle grins are a magnet for happiness.

Life can seem like a gloomy wait in the thick of black shadows.And still there are those who smile at the darkness, anticipating the beauty of an eventual sunrise.

Nothing can squelch your fire except turning your back on the thing that fuels it.

The rarest, truest beauty is visible only to the heart.

The real beauty of a woman is most clearly seen in the smiles of those who interact with her.

Anyone with great ambition, great vision, and great passion can be a great person.

It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.

Jazz is America's classical music.

People should be free to take whatever they want from music and I think that over time I realized that different people always find different things in my songs, which is really good.

A true man does what he will, not what he must.

I heard Pete Seeger records when I was a kid. I saw Bob Dylan when I was about 12. The first song I ever learned to play was a song by Phil Ochs.

I'm an ardent fan. All I really had to do was put myself in my own shoes.

You have to take the basics of feminism and the kind of outline of it and do what you do with it. You have to make things work for your own life.

When I sing, I close my eyes. If I see a feather, everything is fine. Without this image in my mind, the sound is not 'truthful' enough and I must begin again. I have to.

You're blinded by lights and you see all these people who come out, and it's exciting. It's scary and it's exciting all rolled into one.