How does a person create a song? A lot of it is being open to encounter and to be in touch with the miraculous.

We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.

Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart.

When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.

Chase away the demons, and they will take the angels with them.

We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

Freedom to me is a luxury of being able to follow the path of the heart, to keep the magic in your life. Freedom is necessary for me in order to create, and if I cannot create I don’t feel alive.

Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it.

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.

Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.

All my battles were with male egos. I’m just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision.

I want to forget myself in you..." #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion

i prefer to think of the good times. Like when you held my hair as I was vomiting into a bucket.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

I feel a part of the congregation. I've never had to do special music. The kids sing in the choir. It's just normal. We're treated like everybody else.

Do one thing everyday that scares you. Those small things that make us uncomfortable help us build courage to do the work we do.

To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearance of my times as I see them - in a word, to create a living art - this has been my aim.

A lot of people are in politics to make friends, too, instead of making positive change. Theyre worried about getting re-elected.

Yoga is mind wave quieting.

The enterprise can fulfill its human and social functions only if it prospers as a business.

The rule of law in place of force, always basic to my thinking, now takes on a new relevance in a world where, if war is to go, only law can replace it.