Vengeance and revenge are just two words for pain.

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.

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.

Prayer is so incredibly powerful. It keeps you in perfect peace.

Blessed are the ones who bless others with time

Pray GOD by HEART, Not by HABIT.

And I am not one of these long-living fictional characters who prays for death as a release from the captivity of eternal life

The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.

We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.

As a child I made a pact with my mother. I agreed that we were doomed, that she and I abided together in a cocoon of melancholy.

You know, once you've had that guitar up so loud on the stage, where you can lean back and volume will stop you from falling backward, that's a hard drug to kick.

Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today.

This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.

Kids on the set tend to be a pain, and if they're not, their parents are.