Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way.

Everything worth doing starts with being scared.

They say in the darkest night there is a light beyond

You jump right over anything in the past, and you don't analyze problems.

By my 40s, I finally got out of my own way, so I could become a life creator; a life giver.

I have the feeling that in a balanced life one should die penniless. The trick is dismantling.

In the tradition of great female artists, Karla Bonoff, Bonnie Raitt, Christine McVie, Shawn Colvin, Sarah McLachlan....now enter Maia Sharp.

Yes, I like that word. "More" is a prayer to God, isn't it? Gratitude and plea, all in one.

We'd go to the fraternity house. It was a good place to practice. But we really wanted the kids to overhear us. And whoever heard us would go nuts over it.

I'm the kind of person who can hear that stuff. If you sing along to the radio and you're not going to sing unison with the melody, but find the harmony, I find that pretty easy to do.

I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it.

Believe me, men never stare at women, its they who steal our attention - Ramana Pemmaraju

It made me happy that poems are referred to in the present tense even when the poet is in the past tense.

Greatness isn't something you should always be chasing. There's greatness within all of us, and I think that's what we forget.

I'm proud to be an American, I'll tell you. What a program and what a place and what an experience.

Whatever the hell happens, say, 'This is what I need.'

I hope that I'm the kind of person who would step in between somebody holding a gun at somebody else. I would like to be that stupid. I'd like to be that in love with life.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

If it weren't for the Japanese and the Germans, we wouldn't have any good war movies.

Physics Works, and I'm still alive!

It's the biggest public health problem in America, the rising rates of obesity among our young people and very heavy statistics among our adult population.