Oh, deeply vulnerable as a woman - to love someone not knowing whether they love me in return.

I create because it makes me connected to something larger than myself.

It's very reassuring and spiritual to be connected with something larger than yourself and the inside of your own head.

You are connected to something very much larger than yourself. And that's a beautiful thing.

There's so many different ways humans have used music to express the spiritual part of our nature and to connect us with the divine. So for me the pathway is through music.

We've been together so long, I hope it just wasn't the drugs.

I do feel a connection to the divine and to the infinite.

I try to bear pain and not panic. I try to remember that it's got an expiration date, even if I don't know when that expiration date is. And I try to use it as fuel for my work.

Music has always felt very real to me.

I try to use pain as fuel for my work.

I feel like I'm getting better as a writer and as a singer and that there is more to discover there, so hopefully other people feel that way too without having to disassociate with the earlier work.

Love, not for a purpose, love just for the sake of love.

Today God gives milk / and I have the pail.

There's a terrible dark joy when the only person who knows all your secrets is finally dead.

Its always been my tendency to lie to doctors, as if good health consisted only of the ability to fool them.

I go to bed late. My mind starts going at night - that's when those creative juices begin flowing.

Health care is a right, not a privilege.

I write to reach people's common sense and intelligence, to show them that if they unite they can make a different world possible.

The best fish in the world are of course those one catches oneself.

We thought that whatever we wanted to do was right and good, simply because we were Americans, and we would succeed at it because we were Americans.

Hope is the deep orientation of the human soul that can be held at the darkest times.