I had the great advantage of a mother who used to tell me the most beautiful years of a woman's life are ages 35 to 45.

You live in a dangerous place when you sacrifice integrity for security.

Man hurts man, time and time again. As we drown in the wake of our power, somebody tell me why?

The same rain that drowns the rat will grow the hay.

To me, the real thrill is in making the music, and then I just trust it to find its own audience, and at times it's big and at times it's small, but that's beyond my control.

I write about everything, but I just - how faith filters through all that and colors your opinion of other people and life and all that.

Get outside. Watch the sunrise. Watch the sunset. How does that make you feel? Does it make you feel big or tiny? Because there's something good about feeling both.