My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India.

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

Leaving behind books is even more beautiful — there are far too many children.

One who prays ceaselessly is one who combines prayer with work and work with prayer.

the revolt against brutality begins with a revolt against the language that hides that brutality.

It seems safe to say that significant discovery really creative thinking does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm.

The average person is either a weakling, or just a happy person who wants to get along, or thinks being tough is having big muscles and strutting around town and having a good-looking girlfriend.

If parents are the fixed stars in the childs universe, the vaguely understood, distant but constant celestial spheres, siblings are the dazzling, sometimes scorching comets whizzing nearby.

I never felt cool growing up. I was a bit of an outsider, but I discovered theatre very early on, which got me through.

It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.

My absolute favorite meal in Nashville is sweet-potato pancakes at Pancake Pantry.

Plausibility is a trap for the truth laid by lies.