Because you aren't afraid to kiss the dirt (and consequently dare to climb the sky)

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.

Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea.

The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

Little crimes breed big crimes. You smile at little crimes and then big crimes blow your head off.

I never do anything by chance.

If I have one wish for my birthday, it is that 35 is the end of desperation and the beginning of acceptance. Part of that is believing that if I'm meant to give birth, I will.

I'm also not going to explain something just because I said it in a rap. Take what you want from it.

All good writers speak in honest voices and tell the truth.

If it works for the piece of music, I'm going to use it. I don't want to be limited any more than [Bob] Dylan wanted to be limited by not using an electric guitar.

The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.

You have more potential than you think.

Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.

What I did wrong had nothing to do with drugs or cocaine.