You know, I didn't have enough money to quit my day job... the myth of the major label deal. Nowadays, you have a tour bus and a stylist and all this stuff. But back then, no way.

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

If I'm able to use my voice to do good in the world then I definitely want to do that.

...come lie beside me again and understand - the others can show by actions, but I alone will immortalize you in words...

He's got a can up there, ' Richard said.

I did the math. (I presume Americans don't pluralise mathematics because they only plan to do it once.)

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

I haven't given up on the possibility that sweet reason will prevail.

Humans are a part of nature, not apart from nature.

He will take good care to provide what is necessary for our sanctification, provided we are careful to accept everything according to His designs.

Do nothing but be prepared to do anything.