I try to make my music have the quiet spaces of folk, the intimacy, and the energy of rock.

Every night is different, a ball of thread that unrolls differently.

I'd probably be famous now if I wasn't such a good waitress.

I think, because I'm an artist, part of my job is to be a barometer, an antenna. It's in the air and it resonates with a lot of people to lighten up.

Music is gathering. Taking our scattered thoughts and senses and coalescing us back into our core. Music is powerful. The first few chords can change us where no self-help books can.

It's all about consistency, and what makes a child or a dog secure: order, clarity - all those things.

I'm not a household word. The climate for original music is always a bit difficult.

Ultimately you understand there is order in the universe, even if there is no order in your immediate circumstances.

Music is all about training in harmony, training to understand and use musical energy for our greater pleasure by attuning to the natural laws of the universe.

I felt old when I was young and I feel younger now. Maybe that's a trick of my mind, but I'm springier and lighter.

It takes forever if you go by inertia.

Acting was a way out at first. A way out of not knowing what to do a way of focusing ambitions. And the ambition wasn't for fame. The ambition was to do an interesting job.

Whatever you think you are, that's not what you are.

Serenity and inner beauty come when we wait upon God. "Waiting" like that is not merely wasting time.

Its all about taste.If you are cheap, nothing helps

There is no greater virtue than honesty.

Never strike anyone so old, small or weak that verbal abuse would have sufficed.

Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.

Love is friendship on fire -- anonymous

I eat green ants often enough. They are wonderful. The trick is to squash them before you eat them, otherwise they bite your tongue and it ruins the experience.

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.