I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.

Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.

Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.

I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.

At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.

Can one invent verbs? I want to tell you one: I sky you, so my wings extend so large to love you without measure.

I wanted to tell you that my whole being opened for you. Since I fell in love with you everything is transformed and is full of beauty... love is like an aroma, like a current, like rain.

Sexism and racism are parallel problems. You can compare them in some ways, but they're not at all the same. But they're both symptoms inside the white male power structure.

Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.

I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.

Everyone's opinions about things change over time. Nothing is constant. Everything changes. And to hold onto some dogged idea forever is a little rigid and maybe naive.

In the true man there is a child concealed - who wants to play.

You can’t let the apocalypse rule your life.

Elegance is the only beauty that never fades.

I am about to vote. I am about to do something that human beings are rarely allowed to do. I am doing something that did not exist until America.

I write every day when I'm at home - trying to catch up with correspondence.

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.

Usually I'm too tired to apologize.

I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.

Words lead to deeds, they prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.

I had given up the guitar between '75 and '78. I completely lost interest. I was sick of hearing other guitar players and I was tired of my tunes.