Singing and being truthful to a song... I've developed that skill, and I know how to do that real instinctively, that's all I've been doing for the last 25 years.

By the second tour I had rice cakes and hummus with me, and I was jumping rope in my room.

I love drag queens... they perform me better than I ever could myself.

Love the woods and nature and the water and animals. Stop the BS with poaching and hunting. Preservation is critical.

I think I was perceived in one fashion. A video is based on a song. I think you can get glimpses of people's presence within that. There's some people you enjoy watching more than others.

So when I'm working out I do things extreme.

And I'm also looking for a comeback record and it has to touch a lot of people.

Did people think I sounded black? Totally, but that was a marketing tool as well, but also this is how I grew up and these are my influences.

I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.

Emotional pain makes me want to isolate. Or hit back. It's very tough to rise above my natural inclinations. I'm always working on this.

Forget things and have a quiet moment.

Self is found in knowledge, devotion and concentration, in integrity, purity, moderation, self-control and intelligence.

It was always difficult to get cattle returned once a marriage was dissolved.

When everything seems to fall apart..that's when everything new you prayed for has room to enter your life.

Blessed are the pure in heart for they have so many more things to talk about.

We're not the paragons of virtue that we'd all like to think we are. And so, to shatter that myth, God will use suffering to expose the stuff of which we're made.

Anne Romaine [ is ]folk singer and a skillful historian, even though she was not formally trained in the field [of Malcolm X].

Unless you dream, you're not going to achieve anything.

My own way of thinking is to ponder long and I hope deeply on problems and for a long time which I keep away for years and years and I never really let them go.

One thing I learned a long time ago as a prosecutor is that it's tough to get people to obey a law if there is not penalty for breaking it

The Lynburns built this town on their blood and bones." "That was their first mistake," Jared said. "They should've built a city on rock and roll.