“Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.” — Roy Orbison Quote

Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.

The image, like the voice, came in stages. I never sat down with anyone and said, 'Let's design an image.'

My voice is a gift. My talent is a gift. The life process is a gift. The opportunity for the journey is a gift.

I always felt each instrumental and vocal inflection had to be special... I'd spend almost as much time on those as I'd spend on the song itself.

I started using sunglasses in Alabama. I was going to do a show with Patsy Cline and Bobby Vee, and I left my clear glasses on the plane. I only had the sunshades, and I was quite embarrassed to go onstage with them, but I did it.

When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman.

Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study, read, write, or simply spend quiet time away from the places where we interact with each other directly, we are potentially opened for a deeper intimacy with each other.

When I was a child, there's one thing I said: 'I never want to be alone.' That's what I would say. I don't want to be alone.

People do not connect with what happened last week, let alone what happened 20 years ago.