I'm not a household word. The climate for original music is always a bit difficult.

Every night is different, a ball of thread that unrolls differently.

I'd probably be famous now if I wasn't such a good waitress.

I think, because I'm an artist, part of my job is to be a barometer, an antenna. It's in the air and it resonates with a lot of people to lighten up.

Music is gathering. Taking our scattered thoughts and senses and coalescing us back into our core. Music is powerful. The first few chords can change us where no self-help books can.

It's all about consistency, and what makes a child or a dog secure: order, clarity - all those things.

Ultimately you understand there is order in the universe, even if there is no order in your immediate circumstances.

Music is all about training in harmony, training to understand and use musical energy for our greater pleasure by attuning to the natural laws of the universe.

I felt old when I was young and I feel younger now. Maybe that's a trick of my mind, but I'm springier and lighter.

It takes forever if you go by inertia.

You can't chop down a symmetry

it is a higher glory... to stay war itself with a word, than to slay men with the sword, and to procure or maintain peace by peace, not by war.

I live to leave.

To solve a problem, you need to remove the cause, not the symptom.

I think if we're looking at lasting peace in the Middle East, the United States has got to respect the needs of the Palestinian people. They cannot be pushed aside.

I'm in show business... I want to hang out with Janet Jackson, not Jesse Jackson.

I knew that I had to find my own voice, both figuratively and literally.

Teaching is listening, learning is talking

A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses.

I think we all have a tendency to feel like, "Well, what can I do? I can't influence the government or politics in my country."

The time has come to choose a new direction of global development, to opt for a new civilization.