I get lost, sometimes. Days pass and this emptiness fills my heart.

People have the strength to overcome their bodies. Their beauty is in their minds.

Dream big and surround yourself with brilliance, even if you end up dressed up like a flower or a sexually transmitted disease.

Surround yourself with brilliance.

I hold the line, the line of strength that pulls me from the fear.

From the pain come the dream From the dream come the vision From the vision come the people From the people come the power From this power come the change.

Music is a spiritual doorway. ... Its power comes from the fact that It plugs directly into the soul.

Words, they climb all over you/'Til they uncover you From where you hide.

Whenever there's a camera around, a video or film camera, it's a great deal harder for those in power to bury the story.

Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing.

Self-conscious, uncertain, I'm showered by the dust. But the spirit enters into me and I submit to trust.

Have you ever felt so full of thoughts you think you could burst?

I think glamour all the time. I wake up in the morning and I'm already thinking glamour.

There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins.

Old women can see through walls.

Never experiencing the life of the mind scars entire families for generations.

I always like the studio best, once I got the hang of it and the control. I like it because it's complete control

Youth is a mortal wound.

I had my success too soon. Three books published with Scribners in New York before I was 30.

To write you must be warm, fed, loved and sober.

We all gonna die, we bleed from similar veins.