I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate.

The key to change is to let go of fear.

Just a thank you is a mighty powerful prayer. Says it all.

Reading inspirational and motivational quotes daily is like taking my vitamins.

I was down with Lucinda Williams and Mary Chapin-Carpenter. We did an acoustic tour, just the three of us, three chicks and three guitars

For the first time in 23 years I'm enjoying the process of supporting it, of going out and doing shows, and doing the interviews, and doing everything.

For me, art is a more trustworthy expression of God than religion.

If a relationship is founded on love it doesn't end

I was angry at my parents when I had to have brain surgery, that they weren't still around, because no matter how old you are you want you parents when you're going through something like that.

Loss is the great unifier, the terrible club to which we all eventually belong.

But there's nothing that gives me more thrill than when I'm writing and a couplet works. I find the right rhyme, or it's just perfect. There's nothing that exciting.

Love, far from being blind, is the very emotion that allows us to see.

In the Orient people believed that the basis of all disease was unhappiness. Thus to make a patient happy again was to restore him to health.

Dance constitutes a true recapturing of... freedom and childish play.

Keep your heels, head & standards high!

One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.

This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle!

His finest hour lasted a minute and a half.

What we name must answer to us; we can shape it if not control it.

The reality is that who you are is who you are right this second, not who you were at any moment in the past because it doesn't exist anymore. It's done. It's over.

I always thought I was commercial. I always thought I was writing hit singles. These days, whatever's on the radio is considered commercial. People like what's on the radio, whatever it is.