I'd like to work on putting art programs back in schools.

The bickering and fighting and hating that women do with each other - it's going to kill us as a race of people.

You've just got to follow your own path. You have to trust your heart and you have to listen to the warnings.

It's time for those of us who have a voice to speak out for life, for love and for justice using the same media we've used throughout our careers.

When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didnt go over a cliff.

As you get older, though, you realize there are fire extinguishers. You do have an ability to control the flames.

But really, we also need to learn how to love one another as women. How to appreciate and respect each other.

I want to give some positive messages and to empower some people.

I'd been in a vicious cycle and circle of people and couldn't see my way out. So I picked myself up one day about 15 years ago and moved where I didn't know anyone.

Painted faces, sun burnt skin, fixed expressions, smiles worn thin.

I'm a woman and I'm a backbone...everybody needs one.

Your medicine is in you, and you do not observe it. Your ailment is from yourself, and you do not register it.

"The good old days." The only good days are ahead.

In the midst of creating, a person is raised to another level of consciousness that doesn't have that much to do with everyday thinking. It's as if you could imagine life before there were words.

You can't just read the Koran to understand Muslim life. You have to look at history, at personalities, at economics, and so on.

That to me was really, certainly, the gateway into discovering John, ... I feel I found the speaking voice through the singing voice.

You seem in England to be entirely ignorant of the temper of our people.

No disrespect to anyone. I just didn't know where the flag was.

Listening to it was like having a mud-slimed piece of silk drawn lightly back and forth across her face.

When people ask me for an autograph I usually ask for a pen and then stab them with it.

My music is also one part of my inner process, and people also seem to connect with me on that - especially the ones who have the same questions for their own lives.