My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they're dancing fools. It's the only vice they have - dancing.

I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world.

Making music should not be left to the professionals.

As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I've been traveling.

I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.

When I grow up I want to be an old woman.

I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make.

Vengeance and revenge are just two words for pain.

Music is too important to be left to professionals.

I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.

I'm one of the few that comes from this vantage point: I never tried to get a record deal.

Those who cannot see Christ in the poor are atheists indeed.

The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card.

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

If we grew up with nothing, we're complicated with that. That's the thing I keep hearing from people.

Down through the years certain fads of slang had come and gone, and their vestiges could be found in Janie's and Mabel's conversation, like mastodon bones in a swamp.

The U.S. should be equally responsible for diminishing the cocaine market within the United States as it is in fighting the drug elsewhere.

I'm always looking for something different to do at the gym.

For me, clothing is nothing without the story behind it. Everything I own evokes some kind of memory.

Speak any language, Turkish, Greek, Persian, Arabic, but always speak with love

Failure isn't final until you quit!!