I believe you can remember the future as much as the past

Find your authentic voice, become vulnerable, and then put yourself out there.

I had my dysfunctions, but music gave me peace and joy. I never felt in tune with the world. My parents always saw me as an artist, and that greatly influenced me. My art was my autonomy.

Whatever it is that you love to do, be it collect comic books or play the guitar, that you can make a living at it, do it.

I have a lot of survivor insticts, and I know when to quit. I know when to go forward it my life, but not everybody does.

My favorite movie is The Wizard of Oz. I love the fairy tale of it. And Gone With the Wind was always one of my favorites because it's so dramatic and stunning.

You don't realize 'till you get here what a moment in history you're a part of.

Psychology Today is probably one of my favorite magazines, Guitar, Guitar World. People.

I don't mean that to be egotistical, but I'm not writing fluff. I'm not writing for 8-year-olds. I'm a woman and I'm a rock girl.

Mackie is an electronics recording company backing me, and they're willing to invest giving equipment to schools that I choose, and they've already started doing that.

When I lived in Seattle and Oregon, we partied, which is a large reason I don't know drugs or alcohol now because I saw the Destruction of so many great musicians and artists.

We don't even know we are brothers and sisters.

If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates', then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.

Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower.

I wish I gardened. I don't have a space for a garden. I'm in an apartment in New York but I do lots of stuff. I read and write and hang out with people. I go see movies.

Yeah, I've had an odd youth, But I wouldn't know the difference if I'd lived it any other way. And I wouldn't change any of it because I quite like what I'm doing.

Fear invites danger; concealed cowards insult known ones.

It is a matter of immense pride that never in history has there been a complaint against the Indian community from any society in the World. These values aren't small!

I would like to emphasize again that right prayer leads to right action, that faith without works is dead. An excellent way to put thoughts into action is to write a letter for peace.

A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there's work to be done.

At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life.