War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves

The key to change is to let go of fear.

Just a thank you is a mighty powerful prayer. Says it all.

Reading inspirational and motivational quotes daily is like taking my vitamins.

I was down with Lucinda Williams and Mary Chapin-Carpenter. We did an acoustic tour, just the three of us, three chicks and three guitars

For the first time in 23 years I'm enjoying the process of supporting it, of going out and doing shows, and doing the interviews, and doing everything.

I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate.

For me, art is a more trustworthy expression of God than religion.

If a relationship is founded on love it doesn't end

I was angry at my parents when I had to have brain surgery, that they weren't still around, because no matter how old you are you want you parents when you're going through something like that.

Loss is the great unifier, the terrible club to which we all eventually belong.

If it takes you more time to clean your makeup than to watch a movie… you already have a problem.

The different shades of colours present cultural diversity.

I loved the flowers that die, I loved the charm of the sky.

One realizes after a long time that, actually, we are contradictory, all of us.

The things that matter most are not things.

If you jump out of a plane without a parachute, does that make you brave? No, I think that makes you stupid. I will never play without the mask again.

The Maria Mayer shell model suggestion in 1949 was a great triumph and fitted my belief that a nuclear shell model should represent a proper approach to understanding nuclear structure.

I believe that God is very real.

I think of every book as a single entity, and some have later gone on to become a series, often at the request of readers.