Religion is a light in the fog.

I hope I'm better today than I was yesterday. I don't believe in glory days or anything like that, so I think the best is tomorrow or later this afternoon!

Choke me in the shallow water before I get too deep.

Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.

I'm not aware of too many things, I know what I know, if you know what I mean.

You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself.

Religion is a smile on a dog.

But who cares? I can honestly look back and realize that everything happened for a reason. Everything that fell apart has fallen back into place beautifully and magically.

There's nothing I hate more than nothing.

When I look at my kids, and the ease with which they pick up music, I wish I had that.

It's hard to believe that you're really here, so I just pretend that you're not here.

The historian records, but the novelist creates.

I do believe God gave me a spark of genius, but he quenched it in misery.

Do you serve a purpose, or purposely serve?

Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life.

[The dancing] was a challenge. It was fun, though. I was nervous, at first, because I danced so long ago that it was weird picking it back up.

I think vacations are mostly completely stupid. Going to have coffee with a friend, you're probably going to have more fun than if you go to Aruba.

I don't owe no one no obligation, and no one owe me none so every 'ting is fine.

When I was about fifteen, I went to work at Yosemite National Park. It changed me forever. Nature had carved its own sculpture, and I was part of it, not the other way around.

Words empower us, move us beyond our suffering, and set us free.