"As any speaker will tell you, when you address a large number of people from a stage, you try to make eye contact with people in the audience to communicate that you're accessible and interested in them."

“It was not a choice of writing or not writing. It was a choice of loving my life or not loving my life. To keep writing was always a first priority.... I worked probably 25 years by myself.... Just writing and working, not trying to publish much. Not giving readings. A longer time than people really are willing to commit before they want to go public.”

“I used to build dreams about you.”

“Behold me, here I am; thy little handmaiden Acceptance-with-Joy and all that is in my heart is thine.”

Source : Hannah Hurnard, Darien Cooper (2015). “Hinds' Feet on High Places: The Original and Complete Allegory with a Devotional and Journal for Women by Darien Cooper”, p.150, Destiny Image Publishers

“I believe that there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people.”

Source : Interview with Spence D., Peer Schneider, Jeremy Dunham, www.ign.com. July 9, 2004.

“I was 13 and at summer camp when I had my first kiss.”

“Modern civilisation is complicated and artificial. Simple folk live in a world of love and peace. Let no one hate another or harm another.”

“I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio.”

Source : Interview with Donna Kimura, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.

“We suffered for our music. Now, it's your turn.”