Although I can't stop all cruelty to living creatures on the planet, I can be kinder to every living creature in my life.

We're all worth it, man. We're all worth millions of planets and stars and galaxies and universes.

Run to the rescue with love/and peace will follow

I’ve learned that if you can’t get it all together to accomplish this thing called peace, you do at least your part in your life, because that’s where you can truly make an immediate difference.

It still strikes me as strange that anyone could have any moral objection to someone else's sexuality. It's like telling someone else how to clean their house.

Sometimes I wish I wasn't as conscious as I am. It would be so much easier.

In simplicity there is truth.

Animals are not our playthings. We are on this earth to protect them. It's our duty.

Animals can't really voice their opinion. We feel as though we can be on of the spokespeople on their behalf.

I don't want to die in a car accident. When I die it'll be a glorious day. It'll probably be a waterfall.

Music is a whole oasis in my head. The creation process is so personal and fulfilling.

In the real world, you can make your own miracles

Failure is necessary to succeed and will become your biggest blessing.

This paper of yours is so lightly written that you must have sweated terribly.

High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.

Even though I wasn't making a lot of money I was enjoying what I was doing.

It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it.

Don't strive for love, be it.

It is my belief that one's salary is between an individual and the IRS.

We don't have rights until we claim them.

I don't want you leaving laughing, I want to leave you shaking. That to me is true horror.