If my artist life didn't work or if I needed to work in some capacity part-time in something, I knew I'd have a real life skill [become a therapist].

You will be faced with facing all the things in yourself that keep you from knowing who you are, you'll have to stand up to roles and definitions that your family and culture have given you.

When I am ever in any situation that's getting too heavy, I lighten it up with humor.

Working with the body and the imagination - non-verbal ways especially - tap into our deepest wounds and our highest potentials as humans.

My mother used to say, "When you can learn to laugh at yourself, a lot of healing comes from that."

The unconscious mind is way bigger than the conscious mind. Using tools to access its wisdom and self-organizing features is powerful medicine.

If you can see yourself more than just a victim, aha, now you've got the place to move into that is much more vital and creative and is resourceful than being a victim.

Coming into Pacifica I knew that I wanted whatever I was going to learn there, I knew I wanted to integrate that into my art no matter what.

I took everything really seriously and was overly sensitive about things, and I think that's rooted in perfectionism.

Being successful as a creative person is a crapshoot, but it's essential if you feel drawn to being creative that you express it.

Being a therapist can be very serious though. There are people's lives in your hands. For me, it was too much.

I shivered in thosesolitudeswhen I heardthe voiceofthe saltin the desert.

Even if it's not appreciated, do your best. Integrity will take you further than acknowledgement.

I gave everything I had to basketball. The passion is still there but the desire to play is not. It was a great ride.

Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.

Someone can break your heart, leave you dead on the lawn, and still you never learn what to say to stop it all over again.

If people were like me, there would be no mob, because I don't play that game.

What [President Donald Trump] is doing is taking away the executive overreach that President [Barack] Obama did which we thought exceeded his powers.

The older I get, the less I negotiate. When you first start out, it's 90 percent negotiation and 10 percent suggestion. When you get to a certain point, those figures reverse.

Something is born, comes into being, something that did not exist before - which is as good a definition of creativity as we can get.

The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another.