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.

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.

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

Some people say that you should not tempt fate and for them I cannot disagree, but I never learned anything from playing it safe. I say fate should not tempt me.

Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you.

Even if everybody says it’s impossible, with determination, there is always something you can do. The last thing is to give up without trying

Our lives are made up of thousands of everyday choices. Over the years these little choices will be bundled together and show clearly what we value.

Debt gives you the ability to look like you’re winning when you’re not.

My earliest memories are of my father explaining to me the American Dream and how he expected me to do better than he did.

Stained glass enabled the modern world.

The first song I wrote was "Look Both Ways Before You Cross" from Imaginaryland. I started the song by singing a bass line, "hoo hoo hoo hoo."

It’s unbelievable how you can affect someone else so deeply and never know.

And finally I begin to have such a success in my examinations that I found myself in a career you see.

I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical, and I run to a book as a child to its mother.