“Not until I'm ready for you,
Not until I'm ready for you
Can I have it all.”

Source: Going Bovine

Until When We Are Ghosts (2006), When I Come Home

Source: Erak's Ransom

I Know
Song lyrics, When the Pawn… (1999)

Context: (Answering "What made you step up to making your own record?") I felt like I may not get opportunities to do this ever again, so it’s about time—it’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There’s almost no such thing as ready. There’s only now. And you may as well do it now. I mean, I say that confidently as if I’m about to go bungee jumping or something—I’m not. I’m not a crazed risk taker. But I do think that, generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.

Source: Safe Haven

As quoted in Woman As Writer (1978) by Jeannette L. Webber and Joan Grumman, p. 42
Context: The preoccupation of the novelist: how to capture the living moments, was answered by the diary. You write while you are alive. You do not preserve them in alcohol until the moment you are ready to write about them.

As quoted in Untamed Tongues : Wild Words from Wild Women (1993) by Autumn Stephens, p. 132