There's a restless feeling knocking on my door today.

The smile on your face lets me know that you need me, there's a truth in your heart that says you'll never leave me, and the touch of your hand says you'll catch me whenever I fall.

I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me.

That's what I love. Not being interrupted, sitting in a car by myself and listening to music in the rain. There are so many great songs yet to sing

The grand old lady of bluegrass? Well, wouldn't that be a wonderful title to have? I hope I do enough to earn it some day

If you don't know what makes green, you're going to try every color combination.

Lyrics are kind of the whole thing; it's the message. Something might have a beautiful melody but if it's not the truth coming out of your mouth, it's not appealing

I don't look for bliss, just contentment.

Growing up I used to love bands like Free and ELO and the Rolling Stones. When Robert Plant got in touch it made perfect sense to me.

I'm much better at fixing or changing a melody to suit me than I would a lyric. But for me, everything is lyric. It has to be true for me to say it.

Whenever I've chosen a song because it's clever, it's always turned out to be a mistake.

An understanding of Jesus is not a mere matter of intelligence. He has to be accepted by faith.

Love life, live your best life.

I'm a huge Woody Allen fan. Good movie, bad movie, it doesn't matter - I just like his movies.

So die as though your funeral Ushered you through the doors that led Into a stately banquet hall Where heroes banqueted.

I think so much about how we read, about the nature of solitude, and of community, is changing in ways that none of us yet understand.

It is sad that today many times people give up in the hard times and never get to enjoy the fruit of all their labor.

I am still the same girl. The only difference that success has brought about is the love and affection of the people.

I have had, like most women, a lifelong preoccupation with my weight. My first published short story was a love story between an elderly man and a very young morbidity obese woman.

Everything should be at once surprising and inevitable.

Non-citizen terrorist suspects are not members of the American national community, and they have no proper claim on the rights Americans accord one another.