Some things feel really good to sing: there's a physical aspect, but there's more to it - a deeper place you go to.

The smile on your face lets me know that you need me, there's a truth in your heart that says you'll never leave me, and the touch of your hand says you'll catch me whenever I fall.

I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me.

That's what I love. Not being interrupted, sitting in a car by myself and listening to music in the rain. There are so many great songs yet to sing

The grand old lady of bluegrass? Well, wouldn't that be a wonderful title to have? I hope I do enough to earn it some day

If you don't know what makes green, you're going to try every color combination.

Lyrics are kind of the whole thing; it's the message. Something might have a beautiful melody but if it's not the truth coming out of your mouth, it's not appealing

I don't look for bliss, just contentment.

Growing up I used to love bands like Free and ELO and the Rolling Stones. When Robert Plant got in touch it made perfect sense to me.

I'm much better at fixing or changing a melody to suit me than I would a lyric. But for me, everything is lyric. It has to be true for me to say it.

Whenever I've chosen a song because it's clever, it's always turned out to be a mistake.

You told me once that freedom was my right.” I held his gaze. “Maybe you should do something with it.

I love all my fam. I have quite possibly the best dad, mom, and sister in the world.

As much as we think of performance management as numeric and thus perfectly quantifiable, it is as much a product of context and social science as the products we design and develop.

The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.

I didn't lie! I just created fiction with my mouth!

Words should be only the clothes, carefully custom-made to fit the thought.

Eating is one of the great beauties in life. One of my favorite recreations... eating with friends, the service, the ambience.

All things are full of God.

You can't start putting difficult clothes on a person. They're actors: they have to move, they have to feel real.