The creative is always an act of recombination, with something added by new juxtaposition—as making a spark requires two things struck together.

You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.

The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.

Zen pretty much comes down to three things -- everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.

How fragile we are, between the few good moments.

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

How silently the heart pivots on its hinge.

Existence itself is nothing if not an amazement. Good poems restore amazement.

Something looks back from the trees, and knows me for who I am.

In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.

You must try, the voice said, to become colder. I understood at once. It's like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze, braced in stone. Only something heartless could bear the full weight.

The reality is I'm not this person with this driving 'get it done' attitude.

I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be a better place.

Law without penalty is only advise.

I just had to be strong enough to allow myself to be vulnerable. Great Lesson. For art and for life.

Everything that touches YOUR life, must be an instrument of YOUR liberation or tossed into the trash cans of HISTORY

I'm really proud to be a woman representing country music.

I don’t need the money. I don’t care if I make a dime on this. Let me make a good record.

Alas how difficult is it to preserve a high reputation!

I played music practically my entire life. But the first time I ever really played music was with John and Robby and Jim That's where it happened. it was an epiphany, a moment of profound clarity

...If at moments the facts seem to alter with an altered voice, why then you can choose the fact you like best; yet none of them are false, and it is all one story.