I had a mother complex going on and I was projecting all my negative mother stuff onto her and all of my need for her to love me and to make me whole and to approve of me.

If my artist life didn't work or if I needed to work in some capacity part-time in something, I knew I'd have a real life skill [become a therapist].

You will be faced with facing all the things in yourself that keep you from knowing who you are, you'll have to stand up to roles and definitions that your family and culture have given you.

When I am ever in any situation that's getting too heavy, I lighten it up with humor.

Working with the body and the imagination - non-verbal ways especially - tap into our deepest wounds and our highest potentials as humans.

My mother used to say, "When you can learn to laugh at yourself, a lot of healing comes from that."

The unconscious mind is way bigger than the conscious mind. Using tools to access its wisdom and self-organizing features is powerful medicine.

If you can see yourself more than just a victim, aha, now you've got the place to move into that is much more vital and creative and is resourceful than being a victim.

Coming into Pacifica I knew that I wanted whatever I was going to learn there, I knew I wanted to integrate that into my art no matter what.

I took everything really seriously and was overly sensitive about things, and I think that's rooted in perfectionism.

Being successful as a creative person is a crapshoot, but it's essential if you feel drawn to being creative that you express it.

The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty is hard on.

Ji Wenzi always thought thrice before acting. Hearing this the Master said, "Twice is enough.

It is difficult to get organic food at most restaurants, so when possible, eat at home. When not, do your best.

I know I'm known for singing some of those high notes but that's really not what giving someone goose bumps is all about. It's about really trying to find what makes you unique...

Any idiot can get on a treadmill and watch TV and then take great pride in the fact they've ‘exercised.

When we talk about GOD, we’re like a school of fish, discussing the possible existence of the sea.

There is nothing wrong with loving the crap out of everything. Negative people find their walls. So never apologize for your enthusiasm. Never. Ever. Never.

I am not a reluctant peer but a persistent commoner

He who has heard the same thing told by 12,000 eye-witnesses has only 12,000 probabilities, which are equal to one strong probability, which is far from certain.

The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within.