My work is has always been very, very personal.

You have to be vigilant about keeping your own fire alive.

Sometimes when you're writing on a ukulele, you're in a totally new land, rhythmically or melodically.

A tremendous amount of energy is freed up when you feel that your vision is actually respected and cared for by the people you're working with.

Kindness is the highest form of service to the humanity.

Having devoted the first half of my life to the dark, I feel obliged to rever any pinpoint of light now.

It is not the soul that speaks its mind, but the mind that speaks its soul, that will be heard.

Elvis' disappearing body is like a flashing event horizon at the edge of the black hole that is America today.

The international manager reconciles cultural dilemmas

I really appreciate the British part of my family.

It's not that "today is the first day of the rest of my life," but that now is all there is of my life.

When I look at my family, that's all life means, right there.

God intended motherhood to be a relay race. Each generation would pass the baton on to the next.

There is nothing more beautiful than a confident woman.