When you're making a movie in 18 days you have to be able to make decisions and have a streamlined reporting structure.

I'm kind of the boss. I could fire myself if I ever got out of line, and I can hire myself too which is a good thing. It gives me a responsibility to the financial realities.

Reading haiku is like viewing a photograph or a painting. A haiku is a moment of time, isolated, and held up for viewing.

If't were not for my cat and dog I think I could not live.

I wanted him [my father] to cherish and approve of me, not as he had when I was a child, but as the woman I was, who had her own mind and had made her own choices.

If we want money we’ll go to Las Vegas, if we want an after party we’ll go to Miami but if we want to play for love, we still come to India!

Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received - only what you have given: a full heart, enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice and courage.

As far as I'm concerned, my life is just beginning. It's never too late to start over, so this is what I've been doing.

Not all the songs are real events, but I do write about stuff that is close to my heart and it comes out one way or another.

You can change your life, and you can heal yourself.

God's plan makes you sing about resurrection when your hanging on a cross.

As reporters in State College, there was a joke. We used to call Penn State, the Kremlin.