Usually, I fly in the day before a concert so your voice can acclimate to the new environment.

Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin?

There's a lot of maintenance that goes into being a professional singer.

The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life.

I was hugely relieved to discover there was a purpose for girls with loud voices.

I love Mary Chapin Carpenter songs. I love her songs 'Come On, Come On' and 'I Am A Town', they're two of my favorite songs.

Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do.

Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate.

When there's an opportunity to do more, we must.

It's just a little ranch. Thirty-five acres. In Texas, if it's not a thousand acres, it's considered a ranchette.

The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people.

There must be logical minds among all species if they hope to survive. Not everyone can be bridled with hope and optimism.

I can easily say I've done everything I've wanted in music.

Either one fails in one's art or in one's life.

I always thought that I was okay with arithmetic.

I woke up to the world of science when my high school chemistry teacher introduced me to the elegantly ordered periodic table.

It's great that I get accused of not being politically correct. People need to take themselves less seriously. This world is so screwed up as it is, we've all got to relax a bit more.

A man crawls into a tomb to die. A boy crawls in to live. You think that's chance?

In a true zero-defects approach, there are no unimportant items.

Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures. [Lat., Continuis voluptatibus vicina satietas.]

I looked back and forth at them in amazement. I didn't know if I was witnessing a fight or foreplay. I wasn't thrilled about either option.