There's a whole split personality thing of being a farm girl and a rock and roll girl.

It takes incredible fortitude to keep on the road, even though it's fun and it's rewarding and you can't complain, it's just a great life, but it takes a lot of energy.

I think being in a place where there is nothing happening is very inspiring because you have to make your own fun, you are not reliant on imitating any other bands.

Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.

With ignorance comes fear- from fear comes bigotry. Education is the key to acceptance.

I do the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle every morning to keep the old grey matter ticking.

Living for Christ is a day-to-day going on with Him. It is a continuous dependence upon the Spirit of God. It is believing in His faithfulness.

I carry the landscape inside me like an ache. The story of who I am cannot be severed from the story of the flatwoods.

Every day is a dream, every day I spend with my wife.

From the moment that photography appeared, the descriptive genre began to invade Letters... In verse as in prose the décor and exterior aspects of life took an almost excessive place.

A blogger is constantly looking over his shoulder, for fear that he is not being followed.

I was a huge fan of the original Star Trek, and I'd never even dreamed that I would someday be captain of a starship...

As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.