The sun does not rise when you need it most. You rise instead.

Do not love these gardens if you despise the dirt.

I had brutal beginnings. I will not let the darkness in.

I was haunting you, for so long, that I forgot that I became a ghost too.

Forgiveness is a promise not a feeling. When you forgive other people, you are making a promise not to use their past sin against them.

Monday nights always brought in the worst kind of crazy. Tonight that crazy came in the form of Paul Cross, town hermit. One of them, anyway. This was the Pacific Northwest.

The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go downTo the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.

Working away from my husband for long periods is good and bad. It stops us taking each other for granted and gives us space, but I miss him terribly.

In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.

90% of people are in jobs they hate and are bitter about their lives and scratching about for money. That's my worst nightmare.

Tis a question whether adversity or prosperity makes the most poets.

I'm actively going out onto the porch and noodling around on my guitar.

I am very comfortable with the idea that we can override biology with free will.

Do you know what a Palmist once said to me? She said: will you let go!