Everyone has problems, and learning to share them is essential. Hiding pain requires an enormous amount of energy; sharing it is liberating.

I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee.

My look was even more solidified when I started singing in Greenwich Village with my sister Lucy. We wore matching dresses as the Simon Sisters.

I just want to show off my scar proudly and not be afraid of it.

A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.

The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind.

You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new.

I've learned that nobody's perfect, and I don't expect myself to be perfect anymore.

Life is a dream even in its most painful moments, it's a dream that we can dance to.

My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow.

As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me.

- and you are truly human now. You can love, and fear, and forbid things to be what they are, and overact.

People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones.

A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.

The more famous I get, the more I am tolerated, albeit with some head-shaking.

B.B. King is no match for Johann Sebastian Bach.

There is a simple, logical explanation,' I said to myself. And because you never know who else is listening, I added, 'And there is nothing under the bed.'" --Dexter

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

It's important to keep challenging myself and try to come up with some new face every now and again.

You can't get on my level. you gon' need a space shuttle or a ladder; that's forever.

It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived in others because we first deceived ourselves.