A statue stands in a shaded place An angel girl with an upturned face A name is written on a polished rock A broken heart that the world forgot

The teacher wonders but she doesn't ask It's hard to see the pain behind the mask Bearing the burden of a secret storm Sometimes she wishes she was never born

In my daughter's eyes, I am a hero, I am strong and wise, and I know no fear, but the truth is plain to see, she was sent to rescue me, I see who I want to be, in my daughter's eyes.

Love's the only house big enough for all the pain in the world.

I grew up in the country surrounded by music.

I am happy that women can relate to my songs, and hopefully men can too.

Baby, I've tried to find a place inside your heart. Oh, but it's hard to start a fire without a spark.

I think we should all be tolerant of each other and embrace each others' strengths and differences and uniqueness and beauty.

Every show, every audience is different, and I just love leaving the venue feeling like we all know each other a little bit better.

I believe everything in moderation. But breakfast is important. I have two hard-boiled or scrambled eggs with whole-wheat toast and try to get some fruit in there.

I listen to music I'm looking to record or catch up on news and TV, whatever is on the TV at the gym!

Aside from the inescapable realities of birth and death, we’re responsible for the paths our lives take. We each make our own choices.

America's racism is among their own fellow whites. That's where sincere whites who really mean to accomplish something have got to work.

Convalescence. Such an utter weakness that you lie like an animal hibernating, playing possum. You float. You are adrift. Every current is stronger than you.

Manage by objectives. Tell people exactly what you want them to do and then get out of their way.

Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.

We may think we are nurturing our garden, but of course it's our garden that is really nurturing us.

When every province of the world so teems with inhabitants that they can neither subsist where they are nor remove themselves elsewhere.

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

If you can connect people, you can create the future.

You are an infinite spiritual being having a temporary human experience.