I know people sometimes have this fantasy about Cornwall. But the Cornish are so grounded.

For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun.

Women must understand that simply attacking or hating men is just another form of disempowerment. A woman has to realize that when she makes a man crawl it doesn't give her power.

Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field.

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.

Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.

We are all fairies living underneath a leaf of a lily pad.

It's emotional blackmail to say if you're a good businesswoman and a musician, you're betraying your music.

People think I'm nuts because I can sit in a room and be happy by myself.

The sense of loss is such a tricky one, because we always feel like our worth is tied up into stuff that we have, not that our worth can grow with things we are willing to lose.

Some people hide more than others, and it does intrigue me.

I can feel no sentiment of approbation inferior to love.

Self-education is the only possible education the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child's nature.

Positivity is good, but positivity that is rooted in God is power

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

If you tell a child "Don't touch yourself there," they will deal with some kind of sexual problem from then on, to one degree or other.

Of all the bigotries that savage the human temper there is none so stupid as the anti-Semitic.

You've got to look for tough competition. You've got to want to beat the best.

I find inspiration in literally just about everything.

I pray that God would open the mouth in me and the heart in you and that he would be the teacher in the midst of us who may in us speak and hear.

A brave captain is as a root, out of which, as branches, the courage of his soldiers doth spring.