Shame, it comes in every size, touches many lives, knocks on many doors.

Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory.

Chelsea Morning is a great Joni Mitchell song and I guess I'm partial to her lyrics because they show me a slightly different perspective on life.

When you're on a merry-go-round, you miss a lot of the scenery.

Songs are life in 80 words or less.

Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn't change that experience for anything.

Love is still a simple act of faith, and a faithful heart is always worth the wait.

The music is key. It has the power to transport you. I go from being a slightly insecure, shy kind of a person offstage, to this super-confident, motivated, entity onstage.

Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest.

Then come and as we lay, beside this sleepy glade, there I will sing to you my Longfellow serenade.

Drop your shrink and stop your drinkin', crunchy granola's neat.

I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about.

The blessing that I got from my parents, even if they didnt really teach me about money, was their simple lifestyle.

Oh I do believe In all the things you see What comes is better Than what came before

That has to come to an end and end now. No citizen is a second-class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.

These days, people spent too much time striving to understand their feelings - and then ended up with none that were genuine.

If all you can do is judge a person by their appearance, because you don't have the spirit to judge someone from within, you're in trouble.

Gloria Steinem in the women's movement. Eleanor Smeal of the Feminist Majority. There are all of these great wonderful women I've met that are so inspirational.

When I look at where I’ve been, I see that what I am becoming is a whole lot further down the road from where I was.

Elvis died the day he went into the army.

If the child has not an object that it can occupy itself with, it feels ennui; for it does not yet know how to occupy itself with itself.