I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.

I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview.

When your whole world is shaken from all the risks we have taken, Dance with me, dance with me into the colors of the dusk.

I'm not going to do the Ben Harper house record or the Ben Harper drum 'n' bass record.

Let us burn one from end to end, and pass it over to me my friend.

What enables me to believe in anything is hope.

Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.

Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.

I'm a living sunset, lightning in my bones.

Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.

As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery

Everyone writes with hand, but very few can write with heart

Oddly, with discipline, structure, and order, you will find freedom, anything is possible. Without it, locating your saddle may take all morning.

I love history, doesn't matter what era, I'm fascinated.

My abiding faith in the wisdom of our electorate is what gives me hope.

There are people who are younger than I who are more uptight than I am. It's not necessarily an age thing. I mean nobody is offering me 20-year old leads any more.

I play damaged people a lot. I'm a Cancer. And I say that tongue and cheek, but I wear my heart on my sleeve. I'm a very emotional woman.

You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really.

You never know people, do you? You can work with 'em for twenty years; you don't know 'em at all.

The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.

Look up the word role in the dictionary and you'll see it means playing a part. That's why I call myself a real model.