I believe in the power of music. I believe in it absolutely. It's never failed me. Never.

I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world.

Making music should not be left to the professionals.

As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I've been traveling.

I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.

When I grow up I want to be an old woman.

I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make.

Vengeance and revenge are just two words for pain.

Music is too important to be left to professionals.

I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.

I'm one of the few that comes from this vantage point: I never tried to get a record deal.

...the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy.

Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.

Normal is not something to aspire to it's something to get away from.

To try to be better is to be better.

Go outsideamidst the simple beauty of natureand know that as long as places like this exist, there will be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be.

I feel very blessed to have been involved with some of the most complex surgical procedures in the history of the world.

No truth appears to me more evident than that beasts are endowed with thought and reason as well as men.

My interest in India's freedom will cease if she adopts violent means, for their fruit will not be freedom but slavery in disguise.

You can have a perfectly horrible day where you doubt your talent... Or that you're boring and they're going to find out that you don't know what you're doing.

A lady of honor may be raped once, but it strengthens her virtue.