I don't feel there are enough women artists out there who are saying anything of tremendous relevance.

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.

I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.

This is the book I never read ~ These are the words I never said ~ This is the path I'll never tread ~ These are the dreams I'll dream instead

I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory.

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

You have to face things, have faith in what you do and go for it. Think, 'What's the worst that could happen?'

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.

I felt as if each person within visual range were slowly draining the life from me. We were all connected, and the more them there were, the more I wanted to crawl under a table and cry.

I love the idea that it doesn't take one person only to achieve your potential. It takes a village, it takes a community, a street, a teacher, a mother.

One thing I like about jazz, kid, is that I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?

The American people are not anti-immigrant. We are concerned about the lack of coherence in our immigration policy and enforcement.

Living life from a whole different angle. Only see the road through the wings of an angel.

Silently, God opens his golden eyes over the place of skulls.

Marriage. The roots are deep. The covenant is solid. The love is sweet. Life is hard. And God is good.

It is folly to censure him whom all the world adores.

You can't beat everyone up all the time with the same brush