I've worked with many powerful men in the music industry.

For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun.

Women must understand that simply attacking or hating men is just another form of disempowerment. A woman has to realize that when she makes a man crawl it doesn't give her power.

Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field.

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.

Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.

We are all fairies living underneath a leaf of a lily pad.

It's emotional blackmail to say if you're a good businesswoman and a musician, you're betraying your music.

People think I'm nuts because I can sit in a room and be happy by myself.

The sense of loss is such a tricky one, because we always feel like our worth is tied up into stuff that we have, not that our worth can grow with things we are willing to lose.

Some people hide more than others, and it does intrigue me.

perhaps we would bear our sadnesses with greater trust than we have in our joys

there are these places on your poem, / where I want to write bodies.

I love stepping back in time

Misery is the company of lawsuits.

Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.

And our dreams, with what frivolity we have pared them like toenails, clipped them like ends of split hair.

It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business

You, being yourself, help others be themselves. Because you recognize your own uniqueness you will not need to dominate others, nor cringe before them.

God's delays are not God's denials.

I don't believe that one should have one-size-fits-all moral rules for international political action.