I am a woman / who understands / the necessity of an impulse whose goal or origin / still lie beyond me.

She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns.

Sisterhood - that is, primary and bonding love from women - is, like motherhood, a capacity, not a destiny. It must be chosen, exercised by acts of will.

Even when I cannot write, I know I am still a writer, just the way I know I am still sexual even if I have not had a lover for many months.

Days I kept busy with fractured angels' client masquerades.

When you died I didn't weep nor dream but knew you like a god breathe in each healing we begin.

I am a woman who understands the necessity of an impulse whose goal or origin still lie beyond me.

If you sound like a contestant from The Apprentice or if the customer believes that they are being sold AT, you have already failed.

The idea that musicians should be talking about politics is, in some ways, quite a sixties' idea. Music no longer has a vanguard role in youth culture.

You can NEVER rise higher than your expectations of yourself. Expect the BEST!

In any year, the stats in Iowa show we are in a relatively safe location, but that can change dramatically; a lot of it depends on what travels through our campus.

I like to listen to a lot of classical music when I'm painting, the most simplistic stuff I can find. I like simple piano.

Yoga is wonderful. It clears up most health problems. It also gives you an overview.

What have we to offer the world beside the superabundant loot which we recklessly plunder from the earth under the maniacal delusion that this insane activity represents progress and enlightenment?

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war -for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.

The music technology scene is changing so fast its hard to keep up.

I actually have a lot of guilty pleasures.