I find the songs I want to record by listening to as much music as I can. 'When I hear things I really like, I ask the writers to send me a tape of everything they've ever written.

The smile on your face lets me know that you need me, there's a truth in your heart that says you'll never leave me, and the touch of your hand says you'll catch me whenever I fall.

I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me.

That's what I love. Not being interrupted, sitting in a car by myself and listening to music in the rain. There are so many great songs yet to sing

The grand old lady of bluegrass? Well, wouldn't that be a wonderful title to have? I hope I do enough to earn it some day

If you don't know what makes green, you're going to try every color combination.

Lyrics are kind of the whole thing; it's the message. Something might have a beautiful melody but if it's not the truth coming out of your mouth, it's not appealing

I don't look for bliss, just contentment.

Growing up I used to love bands like Free and ELO and the Rolling Stones. When Robert Plant got in touch it made perfect sense to me.

I'm much better at fixing or changing a melody to suit me than I would a lyric. But for me, everything is lyric. It has to be true for me to say it.

Whenever I've chosen a song because it's clever, it's always turned out to be a mistake.

When he caught his breath, he regarded her with glowing, half-closed eyes. "If I'm very, very good, shei'tani, will you do that again when we're alone?

Her today's silence is the unheard shouts from past that you never listened.

A grumpy vampire is a homicidal vampire. Hungry ones were even worse.

There is a budding morrow in midnight.

The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become.

I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.

He (God) loves what I shall be.

Today I don't want to live for, I want to live.

No vegetable exists which is not better slightly undercooked.

something is always falling apart in me.