We got a Chinese Elvis painted by Norman Rockwell.

Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions.

Love's stronger than fear and death.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally.

Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old.

It's funny, when people talk about the 70s I can tell you the year of every album but when it comes to the later efforts I can't remember the exact years, it's funny isn't it?

A pessimist sees the darkness around the light, but an optimist looks for the light in the darkness.

Be there when you are there.Don’t try to juggle all the roles inyour life. Focus on the role you areplaying and do it to the bestof your ability.

Surely the Gods did not bring me safe through fire and sea only to kill me with a flux.

I think a lot of people think that my parents' deaths is why I write such sad songs, but that's not true. Those songs may just be the woman I am.

The really valuable method of thought to arrive at a logically coherent system is intuition.

Obviously you live life for yourself and have your choice to believe what you want to believe in, but I know that the Bible can be used to appreciate life.

People want a grounded government. They want a government that's going to be responsible to them.

I'd rather be sorry for something I had done than for something I didn't do.

Decorating has always been my hobby.

the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.