The past has been there all along, reminding us: This time--maybe, hopefully, against all odds, we will get it right.

Just because a person spends her time making a piece of something does not mean that she becomes that - a piece of something.

Chinese workers are not forced into factories because of our insatiable desire for iPods. They choose to leave their homes in order to earn money, to learn new skills, and to see the world.

A person cannot grow up through happiness. Happiness makes a person shallow. It is only through suffering that we grow up, transform, and come to a better understanding of life.

I rather now strive to reach rather than wait to receive!

Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them!

If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness.

One of the key problems is that the Germans know what they do because everywhere they go there's a 'made in Germany' label on it - they can feel proud of Volkswagens and Audis and Mercedes.

Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into!

I either write songs on guitar, or... I don't ever have a keyboard with me, but like, my keyboard on the laptop.

Gordon Lightfoot has created some of the most beautiful and lasting music of our time. He is Bob Dylan's favorite singer/songwriter - high praise from the best of us, applauded by the rest of us.

I got a call this morning, and it was from Nancy Kerrigan, wishing me luck. She wished me luck and sent me all her good wishes.

Happy the man who never puts on a face, but receives every visitor with that countenance he has on.

I believe women are the glue of everything.