Music is like poetry, It can stop you thinking. But it can also open you up.

People write for ego gratification, not money.

Aristotle didn't have a problem with abortion, " she says. "Oh, well, good, that's a comfort, " I say.

It's a nebulous thing, but it is my belief—my experience also—that women do not have the need to collect that men have.

It seems shelving is an art, like everything else. I decide to do it exceptionally well.

... if sin had a taste she’d found it.

I was fortunate enough to have a rambling youth.

Sanctification is glory begun. Glory is sanctification completed.

Some musicians play blues, others classical jazz or bluegrass. I like to play political roles because I can merge my political interests with my creative interests.

she had given me a piece of what made her life sane.

Nothing is more beautiful than a line that brings out a form.

In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.

Would you rather live your life according to the approval of others or aligned with your truth and your dreams?

Honesty was a cheat invented first To bind the hands of bold deserving rogues, That fools and cowards might sit safe in power, And lord it uncontroll'd above their betters.

A woman's heart is just like a lithographer's stone; what is once written upon it cannot be rubbed out.