I started playing harp about fourteen years ago.

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.

The stories books tell transcend those of the characters inked upon their pages. A book discloses far more about the person who reads it.

You will always be left with how you feel about other people, if you don't just take in the way you think and tell them how you feel about them.

[G]ive him this much: death didn't just walk up and inhale him. He wasn't exactly whisked away. He left claw marks on his life.

America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping malls.

I can't tell you why there's a delay, but stick your head out of the window and you'll know why.

A ton of regret never makes an ounce of difference.

It is not every calamity that is a curse, and early adversity is often a blessing. Surmounted difficulties not only teach, but hearten us in our future struggles.

The roughest and toughest fighter I fought was Joe Frazier

Everyone you see is you in a different time & space.

Abundance is an expansion of energy. Abundance is a form of gratitude, a generosity, a modesty, a bow toward others - what we can give, what we can share, rather than what we can take.