Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other..

I've gone through many, many things. I tell you something, that if it doesn't kill you, you get stronger..

Irish Alzheimer's: you forget everything except the grudges.

I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me..

The opening line from a journal can be the beginning of a song..

Writing is a voice that calls us from dreams, that peeks out of the corner of our eyes when we think no one is looking, the longing that breaks our h….

I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Deep songs don't come from the surface; they come from the deep d….

I am just glad that I can take the music to the people who want to hear it. I love my audiences. I am deeply indebted to them for giving me the chanc….

I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live.

I think suicide is sort of like cancer was 50 years ago. People don't want to talk about it, they don't want to know about it. People are frightened ….

I don't dream songs. I'm more apt to write dreams down and then to be able to interpret them into a song. I also tend to get up and write prose in th….

I am glad so many women singers are being heard in music today. It is healthy for music . . . healthy because it means a lot of men are listening!.

Music can speak louder than words, and I will use my music to speak out on behalf of children everywhere..

... even the devil works for God..

It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive..

I have tried, in all the ways I can, to make timeless music..

When we sing, our hearts can lift and fly, over the troubled waters and over the years..

Survival, I know, is to begin again..

For many centuries, suicides were treated like criminals by the society. That is part of the terrible legacy that has come down into society's method….

I was raised to speak out about politics and the world around me. I would do it whether I was in the public or not. It is the way I was taught. The A….

I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Great….