What happens to us all, I think, when we pick up a pen, is that we just become snobs.

A song is like a saddle: you ride it for a while, and if it's the right kind of song you can sing it for the rest of your life.

Our imagination it is our greatest ally . . . Imagination is a very, very powerful thing. It literally invents the path before you.

The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the rest. People are so locked into not being present.

If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that.

Well, everything about singing, I learned from busking. Everything I learned about songwriting, I learned from busking.

I choose to believe that there is good in people and that everything is a lesson. Our place on Earth is to go deeper, to somehow get wiser. To have spirit.

Our imagination just needs space. It's all it needs, that moment where you just sort of stare into the distance where your brain gets to sort of somehow rise up.

I've realized, you know, having turned 40, that rest is just as important as work. In fact, it's equally as important.

Do I create conflicts for myself? Sure I do.

I only ever really take out my guitar when I'm miserable, which isn't necessarily a very good time to do it.

You're never going to walk around fear. You're only going to walk through it. I have to do all those things I am afraid of, but I do them constantly renewing my mind.

The more we understand the simplicity of life, the less complex we shall live.

If we all make a concerted effort and try to improve the life of someone else, then this world would be a better place to live in.

They who in folly or mere greed Enslaved religion, markets, laws, Borrow our language now and bid Us to speak up in freedom's cause.

Let us sing even when we do not feel like it, for in this way we give wings to heavy feet and turn weariness into strength.

It is a process of finding the right music then planning a costume to fit that style of music.

As far as you can, do some manual work so as to be able to give alms, for it is written that alms and faith purify from sin.

I'm trying to encourage my children's generation and the other ones coming to return to basic American principles.

We are not any safer through the bulk collection of all Americans' records.

I'm just an actress. They try to give me as little information as possible.