Don't be afraid to fall flat on your face.

I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.

Don't be afraid to fall flat on your face.

Touring is really a pretty lonely business.

When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not as a country singer or pops singer - just a singer.

This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.

There is no excuse for a well-dressed gent to wilt in the warm months.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

I just love storytelling. I write music to tell stories. So when I'm done writing a song, I take it and go, 'Okay. How can I interpret these lyrics differently?' I love taking lyrics that were so close to me at a certain point in my life and then revamping them. I always want to take things to the next level.

Irreverence is an essential part of our culture.

I wrote my first story when I was six or seven.

A woman of faith is fearless. There is no ambiguity, no uncertain trump in her life. She can live a principled life because she studies the doctrine and teachings of a perfect teacher, the Master. She is a noble example to all who know her.

Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

My life's actually been quite dull; it's not all that glamorous.

It is a violent sport that we choose as men, and that we as parents allow our children to play.

Yeah, I can read music and I know the names of chords.

I was never against marriage per se. Before feminism, I didn't think you had any choice. In fact, for a long time I always assumed I would get married. I just didn't see any marriages I wanted to emulate, so I kept putting it off.

If there is an error of human judgment, I am the human.

It truly has been an honor to play in Indianapolis. I do love it here. I love the fans, and I will always enjoy having played for such a great team.

I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.

You get out of life what you put into it. I think you need a bit of luck but you also make a bit of luck. I think that if you're a pretty decent person you'll get back what you put in.

I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.

I conclude that the Wagnerian operas which are already in the repertoire, and other masterworks as well, stand in no further need of my services.

I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.

The first case I sat on... was Citizens United. Talk about being thrown in. Needless to say, if I was scared before, I was terrified.

Why we cannot build a system like El Al to be proactive. Why do we have only to react? The shoe bomber - reaction? Take off your shoes. The Nigerian - the body scanner is a result of the Nigerian guy.

We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.

The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations.

Kevin Smith is so great in 'Kingdom Come,' isn't he? He's kind of this very earthy poet. He just has this immediate gregariousness, like, you kind of just want to be his pal.