I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it.

Everything worth doing starts with being scared.

They say in the darkest night there is a light beyond

You jump right over anything in the past, and you don't analyze problems.

By my 40s, I finally got out of my own way, so I could become a life creator; a life giver.

I have the feeling that in a balanced life one should die penniless. The trick is dismantling.

In the tradition of great female artists, Karla Bonoff, Bonnie Raitt, Christine McVie, Shawn Colvin, Sarah McLachlan....now enter Maia Sharp.

Yes, I like that word. "More" is a prayer to God, isn't it? Gratitude and plea, all in one.

We'd go to the fraternity house. It was a good place to practice. But we really wanted the kids to overhear us. And whoever heard us would go nuts over it.

I'm the kind of person who can hear that stuff. If you sing along to the radio and you're not going to sing unison with the melody, but find the harmony, I find that pretty easy to do.

New York, you got money on your mind. And my words won't make a dime's worth a difference, so here's to you New York.

We owe our strengths & weaknesses to constellations and genes - winning over our imbibed weaknesses result into maturity.

There is no feeling except the extremes of fear and grief that does not find relief in music.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?

The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance lives at once in time and space.

From my parents, I learned a very strong work ethic, and all of my brothers and sisters all worked from the earliest days of life right through to the present time.

The future did not arrive.

You're not perfect, but you're not your mistakes.

Moral power is always more dangerous to an oppressor than political force.

Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.