If I hadn't been a singer, I might have been a photographer or an artist. But it's singing I love. I sing all the time, and I feel really good that I've expressed myself.

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.

I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.

This is the book I never read ~ These are the words I never said ~ This is the path I'll never tread ~ These are the dreams I'll dream instead

I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory.

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

You have to face things, have faith in what you do and go for it. Think, 'What's the worst that could happen?'

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.

For if our bodies aren’t our own, And justice isn’t ours, And our love is just a sin, And voices by the peopleAre no longer for the people, What have we left to lose?

He picked up the hairbrush and handed it to her. "What were you planning to do with that, comb me to death?

Looking back at my life's voyage, I can only say that it has been a golden trip.

The principle aim of gymnastics is the education of all youth and not simply that minority of people highly favored by nature.

Everybody thinks if you do one thing, you can't do something else. So I like the fact that I can be versatile if I want to.

It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.

Engagements - they are like a prayer before eating, best quick.

...love him enough to give him this, even if it's at the price of your pride." (Annette to Cat)

I may not be as active in it as some people are, but I think that the church has taught me great life lessons.

Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets.