I assume there must be some kind of genetic thrust. My two grandmothers were very different, but both of them were frustrated musicians.

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.

Instead of past, present and future, I'd prefer chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry.

I'm not funny in person. I mean I'm really not. I'm one of those people who always screw up anecdotes.

You know how to split atoms, how to send explorers to the moon, how to splice genes, but you don't know how people ought to live.

... the best way to strip the allure and dreaminess from a lifelong dream is, very often, simply to have it come true.

[T]he only thing the United States government ever did about slavery was to abolish it. Perhaps that was a mistake, but I do not feel inclined to apologize for it.

If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

It's great to be great, but it's great to be human.

Some of it just involved thinking about, for example, the different kinds of science, what chemistry is.

One must desire something to be alive.

I took one look and fell, hook and tumble.