Documenting one's life in the midst of living it is a strange pursuit..

With time the unbearable becomes shocking, becomes sad, and finally becomes poignant..

Sarah Palin is a great example of someone that just stirs the pot for the sake of the attention. No vision, no critical thinking, no backup to her st….

The new record started out being about loss, but it's morphed into being about how relationships go on even though one person is not in a body anymor….

I was down with Lucinda Williams and Mary Chapin-Carpenter. We did an acoustic tour, just the three of us, three chicks and three guitars.

I don't do comparisons because I always lose..

I think that my sensitivity to music has actually deepened and expanded as I've gotten older. You add more life experience..

I have a real worker-bee mentality. Just show up, just do it. Even if you feel like s--t and you think you're terrible and you'll never get better an….

I have learned to be steady in my course of love, or fear, or loneliness, rather than impulsive in its wasting, either lyrically or emotionally..

Loss is the great unifier, the terrible club to which we all eventually belong..

Every person's every action has an effect..

I dream of songs. I dream they fall down through the centuries, from my distant ancestors, and come to me. I dream of lullabies and sea shanties and ….

As John Adams said, all democracies will eventually self-destruct. We seem to be doing it very quickly..

For me, art is a more trustworthy expression of God than religion..

War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves.

Just a thank you is a mighty powerful prayer. Says it all..

Reading inspirational and motivational quotes daily is like taking my vitamins..

If a relationship is founded on love it doesn't end.

It was never too late to undo who you had become..

But there's nothing that gives me more thrill than when I'm writing and a couplet works. I find the right rhyme, or it's just perfect. There's nothin….

Celtic music is part of the language in Scotland and Ireland, where every kid and grandparent knows those songs, music by the likes of Woody Guthrie ….