I was raised on the good book Jesus Till I read between the lines Now I don't believe I ever wanna see the morning

As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration.

When I write my music I see all the rivers flowing... sensual, spiritual, religious, animal, intellectual.

They say a woman's place Is to wait and serve Under the veil Submissive and dear But I think my place Is in a ship from space To carry me The hell out of here.

I'm not scared of dyin', and I don't really care if it's peace you find in dyin'. Well then let the time be near. And when I die and when I'm gone there'll be one child born and a world to carry on.

Nothing cures like time and love.

Sometimes only poetry can say it. I think there's just this deeper language, and away of putting your world back together again and breaking through barriers.

If it's peace you find in dying, well then let the time be near.

I lost my eyes In east wind skies Here's where I've cried Where I've tried Where God and the Tendaberry rise Where Quakers and revolutionaries Join for life

Emily And her love to be Carved in a heart On a berry tree But it's only a little farewell lovespell Time to design a woman

You can see the walls roar See your brains on the floor Become God Become cripple Become funky

It is necessary to understand who you are

Temptation is a strong weapon that Satan uses against the children of God

Get out of your own way. Learn to exist gracefully and peacefully with yourself.

Let it be love that you are living in.

One essential to success is that your desire be an all-obsessing one, your thoughts and aim be coordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letup.

My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals.

I really like where Tony Robbins says that we're all hypnotized to see beauty this one specific way, and it's true.

One would be in less danger From the wiles of the stranger If one's own kin and kith Were more fun to be with.

Jill: 'I don't pay attention to politics.' Ben: 'You should. It's barely less important than your own heart beat.' Jill: 'I don't pay attention to that, either.'

The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike someone who admires us, and to admire someone who dislikes us.