If I'm censoring for anyone, it's for my parents. They are very old-fashioned and moral people. They still don't understand me that well.

We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.

Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart.

When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.

Chase away the demons, and they will take the angels with them.

We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

Freedom to me is a luxury of being able to follow the path of the heart, to keep the magic in your life. Freedom is necessary for me in order to create, and if I cannot create I don’t feel alive.

Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it.

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.

Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.

All my battles were with male egos. I’m just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision.

Say it new or say it straight.

Engage in the work that brings you joy.

It's as if she assumes everything will go right, and when it doesn't - which, of course, is pretty often - she is surprised and affronted.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else

Our minds can come up with the most entertaining possibilities, if we let them. But most of the time, we keep them under far too close a check.

I'd probably have been wealthier if I had stayed with law, but pretty miserable doing it.

It's such an extraordinary supple medium that you never do quite know what paint will do.

Who Saddam Hussein kills, dies.

Because when every day is the End of Days, after a while they feel pretty much like every other day, even though you know that's crazy. And nothing is the same.

I believe in the kindness of others, and that I must love them without fear.