I think we shape God in our own image a lot of the time.

I've heard from writers and musicians and fans that they think I'm underrated.

I'm thankful for serendipitous moments in my life, where things could've gone the other way.

Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar.

I think good art does come from a dark place.

My first crush was Hayley Mills when I was a little kid in England. I used to kiss her picture goodnight.

Once I discovered music, I knew what I wanted to do.

If the timing's right and the gods are with you, something special happens.

I don't think anyone ever feels acknowledged enough.

As I've gotten older, I realize how important my fans are and that I'm here because of them and not the other way around.

If you want something you just have to see it and believe in it and not take no for an answer.

When you're a black woman, her mother said, ain't no hiding what you are. Day you try, is the day you die. Stand tall, smile bright, and let 'em wonder what secret's making you laugh.

You begin to understand your personality, your response, and the functions of your body, heart and mind into different situations, events and with different people, with the inward attention.

I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its immorality

Never despair.

You know it's real when you are who you think you are

In playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express myself.

Freedom is like health, it is taken for granted while one has it. One becomes aware of it when it has gone.

It is not about the pasture of the sheep, but about their wool. [Lat., Non est de pastu ovium quaestio, sed de lana.]

There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark.

This is enough was always true. We just haven't seen it.