I used to sing songs and write with my uncle, Bill Owens.

If you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.

It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey.

I'm on a seafood diet - I see food, I eat it.

I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

With love, accept what is happening. Don’t shout at what should happen with anger.

What you dream of, you will possess.

I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.

Time is a perishable commodity.

After listening to you for slightly more than one hour, I can tell that you are a strong and intelligent man and that you want peace

I've been campaigning for 17 of the last 24 months. I'm ready to legislate and not campaign.

God is an idea that people believe in and I spend time arguing with people that subscribe to that idea(man made idea).

Crows appear in many of my new unpublished poems. In these walks, they take on a symbolic life apart from their irritating, undeniable, interruptive presence. I figure them differently.

Some things are worth the wait.