Survival, I know, is to begin again.

I may like the Blizzard best, of all the songs I have written

The powerful men in my life have always believed in me: my husband, my son

Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other.

I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me.

Irish Alzheimer's: you forget everything except the grudges

Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.

When inspiration does not come, I go for a walk, go to the movie, talk to a friend, let go... The muse is bound to return again, especially if I turn my back!

Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get.

I was raised to speak out about politics and the world around me. I would do it whether I was in the public or not. It is the way I was taught. The American way

It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.

Life into death— Life’s other shape, No rupture, Only crossing.

The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, started or stopped by electricity, and extinguished by a sharp blow or by insufficient oxygen.

Oh sky...I won't ask so much as to become the sun or the moon, just one of the stars in between...

The world knows nothing of its greatest men.

The bickering and fighting and hating that women do with each other - it's going to kill us as a race of people.

When your enemies defy you, you must serve them steel and fire. When they go to their knees, however, you must help them back to their feet. Elsewise no man will ever bend the knee to you

When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching - they are your family.

The single most instinctive evil is discrimination

The whole publicity machine is a very weird one. It's kind of a necessary part of what we do here, but this helps me keep grounded.

Canada is free and freedom is its nationality.