It's just what it is. It just all happened in my stride.

In our depths, I think we all feel very small in relation to the greater universe and God.

If I stopped writing and being at my piano, I wouldn't know how to live. It's your best friend.

I'm having a good time watching Shooter. He's a good kid. He's been a good son to me. He has never failed.

Mother was a great force in her area of evangelism.

I'm very happy. I was little scared because it's such a big bite.

It's just what it is. It just all happened in my stride.

I see some some of these other guys, and they're wearing the hats and the jackets and saying the words and they're relating and they're picking. But there's something missing.

It's part of what I do at my piano - the hymns. And then I write.

Music is important.

What I felt is the same kind of love I felt between Waylon and his audience. And that's what I miss.

I'd always been on the giving end of music and creating.

There's just no vision. You have no ground, no vision.

The fact that this is getting released, and people are just now hearing it, kind of tickles me. This is just awesome that the media is excited to talk to me and find out what's happening.

I was pleased that two very disparate photographs, two images that each worked in their own way had appealed enough to other people for them to buy them. I was also relieved they weren't the last ones purchased, and that they sold for a pound more than the frame was worth.

The lifelong goal of an improviser is to listen to what the other person is saying, taking it in, and responding.

Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.

It's very rare - and it does happen on occasion - where I'll take a piece of lyric and I'll just sit down and purposefully craft that melody around that lyric because I think the lyric is the wellspring for the song, without question.

I started getting more and more active around immigration reform because this was such a waste of lives, such a waste of potential, such a waste for our country not to have the human capital that we developed - geared toward improving our entire society.

I remember breaking the news to both my parents that I wanted to be a director, and they both looked very doubtful. They didn't know what a closet Hindi film buff I was. I used to dance to old Hindi films songs on the sly, so my decision to be a part of Hindi cinema was shocking even for my parents.

When the uncarved wood is split, its parts are put to use. When the sage is put to use, he becomes the head.

I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.

Promises are like the full moon if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day.

Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.

In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.

I'm a fan of supersymmetry, largely because it seems to be the only route by which gravity can be brought into the scheme. It's probably not even enough, but it's a way forward to get gravity involved. If you have supersymmetry, then there are more of these particles. That would be my favourite outcome.

It is proclaimed by the great leaders of that party, by its political conventions, by its ministers of the Gospel, and by every other means they have of giving currency and importance to the declaration, that it is its mission to abolish slavery in the Union.

Do we settle on a regional team because we can go to its ballpark and see its games on television? Or do we choose a team as our favorite because it has an especially appealing player, a Barry Bonds or an Ichiro?

Our state is in crisis. Our people are hurting. Now is the time when we all must resist the traditional, selfish call to protect your own turf at the cost of our state. It is time to leave the corner, join the sacrifice, come to the center of the room and be part of the solution.

I went to Baltimore School of the Arts, which is known for discovering Tupac and Jada Pinkett-Smith.

When a patient does get an organ from another person, it comes from a different body. It has different properties, and a person's natural tendency is to reject that organ.

If I could be good at any sport, it'd be javelin. I know a few people I would love to throw a spear at.

Swimming isn't everything, winning is.

Success as a woman has changed me. That's what I feel is the first thing. When I feel like a successful woman as a rounded human being, then it feeds my work in a broader way so it becomes more interesting.

Life is just so painful and messy and hard and worth it and all that stuff.

Due to my work as a musician, songwriter, recording artist and author, hundreds of people stream in and out of my basement studio to help me with my creative projects.

I have a hard time being happy, and I think a lot of creative people suffer with that when life gets real happy.

Thank goodness I started getting movie roles and then television shows came along. So I was very fortunate to be able to do all three and I like all of them.