The love that I pray every day is manifest through me. Not because I'm a loving person, but because the God that I serve loves everybody.

I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world.

Making music should not be left to the professionals.

As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I've been traveling.

I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.

When I grow up I want to be an old woman.

I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make.

Vengeance and revenge are just two words for pain.

Music is too important to be left to professionals.

I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.

I'm one of the few that comes from this vantage point: I never tried to get a record deal.

How passionate have you embrace life?

People cry, not because they're weak, it's because they've been strong for too long.

There is nothing you will ever do that is more important than being honest about who you really are.

The only way to know is to learn, relearn and unlearn.

Everything you do, if not in a relaxed state will be done at a lesser level than you are proficient. Thus the tensed expert marksman will aim at a level less than his/her student.

I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.

I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught, but that relentless desire to write has to come from within.

I have a naive trust in the universe - that at some level it all makes sense, and we can get glimpses of that sense if we try.

Free enterprise has done more to reduce poverty than all the government programs dreamed up by Democrats.

If we want to invest in the prosperity of our nation, we must invest in the education of our children so that their talents may be fully employed.