I never thought people would be mortally offended by the sounds I was making.

I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac.

I wasn't born of a whistle or milked from a thistle at twilight No I was all horns and thorns sprung out fully formed, knock-kneed and upright.

People in San Francisco and the East Bay have shown interest, done interviews, and have come to shows. I guess that the news travels fast out of this island that we are on.

It broke my heart when I learned the moon had been passing the sun’s light off as its own.

Never get so attached to a poem that you forget truth that lacks lyricism.

I would happy for someone to download my music.

What a woman does is open doors. And it is not a question of locking or unlocking.

I am producing sounds that people are not used to hearing from the harp.

Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and delight for me is this idea that I get to rhyme.

I wasn't interested in writing music that wasn't beautiful for me to listen to.

Meditation is a wonderful way to shout down the outer noise so that you may pay attention to the universal inner message.

So young and yet already carrying a great burden on her shoulders. Do not worry, my dear, I will make sure you can protect yourself and others. Because you are our hope … sweet, darling … Arima.

The ragamuffin gospel says we can't lose, because we have nothing to lose.

I really don't have any solutions and I don't like movies that do.

It doesn't cost anything more to be nice.

It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique.

I believe in treating others as I want to be treated--but I certainly don't believe in turning the other cheek and the truth is that I never knew any Christians who did either.

Everything comes in useful once in a hundred years.

To discover the soul living in somebody's body, we watch the surrounding of the body, and if it's messy and disordered, so is the soul.

At MTV, although the audience is smaller, I found it more interesting to deliver news to a specific group of people, because my story then did not have to try to be all things to all people.