When I grow up I want to be an old woman.

I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world.

Making music should not be left to the professionals.

As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I've been traveling.

I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.

I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make.

Vengeance and revenge are just two words for pain.

Music is too important to be left to professionals.

I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.

I'm one of the few that comes from this vantage point: I never tried to get a record deal.

Prayer is so incredibly powerful. It keeps you in perfect peace.

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

I would prefer to try and fail than to not try at all.

Nothing can be done except little by little.

I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.

If we die, we want people to accept it. We are in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us, it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life.

The thought is not the thing.

I've learned that the best political reporters never make predictions!

The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.

I need to feel the excitement of life stirring around me, and I will always need to feel that.

My view is that we're entering into a situation of enormous instability, insecurity, fragility.