My guitar player calls the process of writing lyrics based on another story, "filling up the well" when you can get inspiration from other people's art without stealing, more being influenced by it.

I guess it's pretty diverse, but I do have quite a 30-and-older male audience coming out to the shows. I don't know if that's due to me being a female or what.

When you move to the city, you really notice how ugly people can be. And that's something you don't really have to deal with in the country. So I do miss that.

Every memory becomes a golden treasure to us when we have lived our lives with tragedy and triumphs, sadness and happiness.

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.

One by one the flowers close Lily and dewy rose Shutting their tender petals from the moon.

We don't take pictures with cameras, we take them with our hearts and minds.

The American girl makes a servant of her husband and then finds him contemptible for being a servant

Love was the hardest thing. Don't let anyone ever tell you different.

Stay on the path that the Democratic Party has us on, we're going to be in a mountain range of debt.

I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.

Just because you're down to your last strike, you're not out yet. You can always do more. You'll always have more at-bats to take. That's true in baseball, in rescuing animals, and in life generally.

I just love expanding my horizons and growing as an artist. The only way you get to do that is by doing something that scares you or takes you out of your comfort zone.