Outside your door, the world is waiting. Inside your heart, a voice is calling. The four corners of the world are watching. So travel, daughter, travel. Go get it, girl.

I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the new, because it gives us the opportunity to create who we are becoming.

I really believe in the power of music.

U.S.-China relations doesn't need another lawyer.

I reside in a new colony for the Chinese-singing banjo player, with a population of one. At least I have something I have to do with my life.

I've noticed that the more I open up, the more I learn.

I would still describe China as a vast, invigorating puzzle that will never make sense to my western upbringing.

Hogslop is the real deal groovilicious honkin old-time string band. Guaranteed old-time awesomeness with these fellas around!

I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl.

For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty and it's not what it is for me.

I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute.

The world looks too small when you believe in your eyes

Fashion condemns us to many follies the greatest is to make oneself its slave.

It was amazing and inspiring to see so many people come together through music to aid the great state of Vermont.

Once lost, trust can only be regained if we are as good as our word.

Avarice is more opposite to economy than liberality.

I think my wife ... is sure of my loyalty.... She knows how hard I work. She knows how tired I am every night. She knows I have fifty or sixty reporters watching me day and night.

I often times find with movies that the heavier the onscreen situation is, the more levity there is off screen. It's almost out of necessity.

My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God.

The way to accomplish the assignment of truly living is to engage fully, richly, and deeply in the living of your dreams. We are made to dream and to live those dreams.

The Augustinian doctrine of the damnation of unbaptized infants and the Calvinistic doctrine of reprobation . . . surpass in atrocity any tenets that have ever been admitted into any pagan creed.