I create because it makes me connected to something larger than myself.

It's very reassuring and spiritual to be connected with something larger than yourself and the inside of your own head.

You are connected to something very much larger than yourself. And that's a beautiful thing.

There's so many different ways humans have used music to express the spiritual part of our nature and to connect us with the divine. So for me the pathway is through music.

We've been together so long, I hope it just wasn't the drugs.

I do feel a connection to the divine and to the infinite.

I try to bear pain and not panic. I try to remember that it's got an expiration date, even if I don't know when that expiration date is. And I try to use it as fuel for my work.

Music has always felt very real to me.

I try to use pain as fuel for my work.

I feel like I'm getting better as a writer and as a singer and that there is more to discover there, so hopefully other people feel that way too without having to disassociate with the earlier work.

I think I had a tendency to get stuck inside my head and go to some very dark places in my mind, and get stuck there. I couldn't see a way to get out.

If You want to be an educated person follow nobody, but learn from everybody

You ought to stop everything and write the sacred-words as its flashes in your mind.

You can never be happy unless you learn to love yourself.

Fear less hope more eat less chew more whine less breathe more talk less say more love more and all good things will be yours.

China has to move to a more flexible foreign currency trading system, no question about that. You might see two or three moves to widen the band, say to 0.5 percent.

There never was a good war, or a bad peace.

When I said 'we', officer, I was referring to myself, the four young ladies, and, of course, the goat.

Out of the questions of students come most of the creative ideas and discoveries.

As institutional psychopaths, corporations are wont to remove obstacles that get into their way.

Having established that good ideas do indeed come in from the cold, start on the fringes and become mainstream, can we make any predictions about what the next move will be?