Humanity is filled with beautiful and positive and powerful people who care. I'm so glad we have people like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett in the world.

I may like the Blizzard best, of all the songs I have written

The powerful men in my life have always believed in me: my husband, my son

Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other.

I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me.

Irish Alzheimer's: you forget everything except the grudges

Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.

When inspiration does not come, I go for a walk, go to the movie, talk to a friend, let go... The muse is bound to return again, especially if I turn my back!

Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get.

I was raised to speak out about politics and the world around me. I would do it whether I was in the public or not. It is the way I was taught. The American way

It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.

I will form good habits and become their slave.

I had come to Yugoslavia to see what history meant in flesh and blood.

Be a witch they cannot burn.

When you live alone, you can be sure that the person who squeezed the toothpaste tube in the middle wasn't committing a hostile act.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

Those no-sooner-have-I-touched-the-pillow people are past my comprehension. There is something bovine about them.

He who has art and science also has religion, but those who do not have them better have religion.

When I start working on a new album, I kind of stop listening to a lot of outside stuff just so I can kind of focus.

Justice in politics has an uncomfortable habit of being rough.

Even a few moments of offering lovingkindness can reconnect you with the purity of your loving heart.