There is a spirit in all music, the spirit has the ability to conjure up thoughts even pictures of something that happened or you wished would happen or you anticipate happening. Music has the ability to create ideas in you and me. It has the ability to encourage us to be creative.

I would welcome a friendship with Lynne Hinton. I would welcome an invitation to sit down at her table, but mostly I would welcome her next book.

That knowledge humbles me, melts my bones, closes my ears, and makes my teeth rock loosely in their gums. And it also liberates me. I am a big bird winging over high mountains, down into serene valleys. I am ripples of waves on silver seas. I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation.

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

Some of us are timid. We think we have something to lose so we don't try for that next hill.

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

To those who are given much, much is expected.