I am glad so many women singers are being heard in music today. It is healthy for music . . . healthy because it means a lot of men are listening!

I may like the Blizzard best, of all the songs I have written

The powerful men in my life have always believed in me: my husband, my son

Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other.

I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me.

Irish Alzheimer's: you forget everything except the grudges

Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.

When inspiration does not come, I go for a walk, go to the movie, talk to a friend, let go... The muse is bound to return again, especially if I turn my back!

Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get.

I was raised to speak out about politics and the world around me. I would do it whether I was in the public or not. It is the way I was taught. The American way

It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.

More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.

Fight only in direst need Not for lust or petty greed Honor those that do give birth Respect them well for their full worth

He went to the hospital with bleeding kidney and me,I went dancing with my life

Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.

Keep practicing," he told her."Until I get it right?" she said. But he corrected her."No. Until you don't get it wrong.

I play the unsinkable Molly Brown, which is where she got her name from, because she survived.

The party in power almost always unapologetically engages in deficit spending, while the other party argues passionately against the evils of debt and deficits.

The best revenge is to live well.

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

Only talent interests me in paintings and books. Not general ideas, but the individual contribution.