I take my chances. I can't cling to remorse or regret.

You know, that single girl life and that sense of isolation - that doesn't leave you just like that. And that's what that song is about. I remember that, and that is imprinted on me, that sense.

It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

In this world, you've a soul for a compass and a heart for a pair of wings.

Emmy Lou Harris introduced me to the work of the Vietnam Veterans of America foundation and the Campaign for a Land Mine Free World.

Carry with you maps and string, flashlights, friends who make you sing, and stars to help you find your place, music, hope, and amazing grace.

Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium.

Life is never a straight line - it's peaks and valleys. Why would you want to be the same person every day of your life?

We all have two lives. The one we are given and the one we create.

Was it a light only she could see? A gypsy's spell? A mystery?

Every sleepy boy and girl in every bed around the world- Can hear the stars up in the sky whispering a lullaby

Write down what you want your destiny to be, and in so doing you will live your dreams.

I'm trusting everyone around me who seems to be confident and happy with what we're up to.

I'm attacking the pomposity that says this is more valuable than that. I'm sick of that.

Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

I don't think any human being is truly free. We're so tethered to our own insecurities and hampered by our fears and our prejudices. I think it's human nature that we're never going to be free.

The Father to whom we pray is the glorious God who created worlds through His Beloved Son.

Have we the means of resisting disciplined armies, when our only defence, the militia, is put in the hands of Congress?

The dead see what they believe they will see. So do the living. That is the secret.

Conceal thy domestic ills.

I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.