There was just no way I could leave this little Martin guitar in my apartment overnight or even in the afternoon, and expect to find it there when I got back.

Folk-rock hasn't changed much over the decades since the Byrds started it.

You don't see a lot of difference between the Gin Blossoms and the Byrds.

I wouldn't be interested in just doing a show that's mapped out and choreographed with a set list. That would've been boring so long ago it just wouldn't be any fun.

I've had an advantage; I've had a sort of open public acceptance in New York that doesn't happen to just anyone trying to make the transition you were talking about.

It's often said that life is strange. But compared to what?

I'm not trying to be the new anybody.

I relate to the audiences and they know me. It's pretty real.

I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs.

And the music, as far as a type of music, it's still pretty viable.

But I'm able to just keep going, and that's the challenge. It's the next song. And then just enjoying the shows and people who come out to the shows. It's pretty organic, really.

You will never know how much progress you’ve made in life until you go back and start from the very beginning”.

Now I am just an elderly lady who is full of spleen, who humps around greater Boston in a God-awful hat, who never lived and yet outlived her time, hating men and dogs and Democrats.

Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.

It sucks the way the world works. You can do a hundred things for people, but you do one bad mistake and everyone crucifies you and that's all they want to remember.

Though the people support the government; the government should not support the people.

If you want something different, you are going to have to do something different.

Republicans will not be reduced to being the tax collectors for the Obama economy.

The measure of your success will be the measure of your generosity.

The world is a living image of God.

I would love to do a drama. I did a couple of episodes of The Good Wife, which is more of a drama. I really liked that; I thought it was interesting. A lot of my favorite comedies play out as dramas.