I like working solo and it was a lot of fun joking around with the audience, saying things. I'm only just learning how to do certain things.

Everything worth doing starts with being scared.

They say in the darkest night there is a light beyond

You jump right over anything in the past, and you don't analyze problems.

By my 40s, I finally got out of my own way, so I could become a life creator; a life giver.

I have the feeling that in a balanced life one should die penniless. The trick is dismantling.

In the tradition of great female artists, Karla Bonoff, Bonnie Raitt, Christine McVie, Shawn Colvin, Sarah McLachlan....now enter Maia Sharp.

Yes, I like that word. "More" is a prayer to God, isn't it? Gratitude and plea, all in one.

We'd go to the fraternity house. It was a good place to practice. But we really wanted the kids to overhear us. And whoever heard us would go nuts over it.

I'm the kind of person who can hear that stuff. If you sing along to the radio and you're not going to sing unison with the melody, but find the harmony, I find that pretty easy to do.

I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it.

Hope, love and faith are in the waiting.

To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.

It looks like I'm just gonna keep getting really, really happy and sad and embarrassed and excited and disappointed for the rest of my life, so let's just do that.

One can be committed to conformity or one can be committed to truth, but not both.

though money is a fine servant, as a god, it does seem to develop all the evil qualities of the slave seated between the cherubim.

God never imposes a duty without giving time to do it.

I think for me, food was a way for me to deal with emotional trouble.

The course of a lifetime runs/over and over again

Beauty is the flower of virtue.

That's what Archie did - built a house nobody could anticipate a need for, except himself, a house that was invisible to everyone else.