I had not thought of violets of late, The wild, shy kind that springs beneath you feet In wistful April days.

It's punishment to be compelled to do what one doesn't wish.

Nothing will do me any good unless I learn to control this body of mine.

The rainbow is elusive, and its colors but the illumination of tears.

I am profoundly in the D's - discouraged, depressed, disheartened, disgusted.

Every new fad or fashion at once has its denouncers from the pulpit, platform, professor's chair.

Picturesqueness is a lost art. We may expect at anytime to hear that a collar ad is blazing its electric lights atop of the largest pyramid.

Didacticism is the death of art.

Blue. My God! I'm so blue that if I were a dog, I'd sit on my haunches and howl and howl and howl...

Willow trees are kind, Dear God. They will not bear a body on their limbs.

People believe that Noah's Ark is a legend when we are already apart of this legend, look around what do you see?

Well, one can't get over the habit of being a liitle girl all at once.

Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.

If I get a computer and I tune it to the Internet, it will pick up the Internet from the invisible realms that I can't see.

A place isn't a place until it has a bookstore.

Please, people, do not f- with depression. It's merciless. All it wants is to get you in a room alone and kill you. Take care of yourself.

That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on - what is fundamental is my being a composer.

I am happy to be a role model for anybody - whether they are black, white, yellow, pink or purple.

I like to think that good people win. But even good people have other sides. Most people will slow down to get a good look at an accident, even though they won't admit it.