"How could we [the world] have stood by and let that happen to them? We owe them."

“The desire to be seen as superior and singular- and, conversely, but similarly, inferior and individual, is a big topic...They have a term for the syndrome- it is called terminal uniqueness...we all refuse to be part of the crowd, to walk in the middle of the road in the safety of others. We all think were special. But the problem is, as I point out to Dr. Singer all the time, I actually am special.”

“I'm always doing poems from a place of not-knowing, a place of ignorance in a way.”

Source : Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.

“When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.”

Source : Quoted in Saturday Evening Post, 22 July 1950

“Emotions are enmeshed in the neural networks of reason.”

“There are challenges in life, and it was a great challenge to have [became a member of Judas Preist]. The situation I was getting into, I knew what it stood for to me and to millions of people around the world. You get an opportunity like that, a chance to audition, you've got to do it. It worked out.”

“The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other.”

“Painting a line across canvas with a brush is similar to the motion of a wave breaking.”

“I was a hotshot as a junior. When I was 18, I really got into fiddling around. I completely lost interest in golf, and I guess all I could think about was going to college, getting married and having babies.”