I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it.

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.

Women! Dressed to kill the woman in them.

Through memory we travel against time, through forgetfulness we follow its course.

The whole world might not see my struggles and obstacles, but God sees them all, and He never hesitates to come to my rescue. So why wouldn't I praise His Mighty name?

You can’t go home again” ─ isn’t necessarily that places change but people do.

There is not a single ill-doer who could not be turned to some good.

Probably millions of Americans got up this morning with a cup of coffee, a cigarette and a donut. No wonder they are sick and fouled up.

I generally do things I'm proud to be in and generally I'm in things people like.

Avedon wouldn't let me put wax between my teeth like I usually did.

When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.

Criticism is easier to take when you realize that the only people who aren’t criticized are those who don’t take risks.