It's funny, I think after you are a star like Sting and you no longer think you need any guidance or aid - it would be great to see those stars work with other songwriters.

Her beauty cannot be measured with standards of a colonized mind

Any ideas of “other” are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of “normal.”

Once you encounter people who are really testing the limits of kindness, that's when you start to build up a shield and close yourself down.

I'm becoming more and more apolitical - I think the most revolutionary thing you can do is just live your life and have a good time. Before they scoop you up on the street or you die.

Your yes means nothing if you can't say no.

Music is like a lover that I can't commit to, but I seem to always find myself in bed with.

I am here no longer just a vision birthed into this body I accept my praise, my blame, my joy, my sorrow I realize we are, in truth, the truth we seek God, perfect this very moment.

It's hard being bisexual, omnisexual, multisexual, whatever you want to call it, when people have their agenda and expect you to just represent their agenda.

I stopped beating up on myself. I stopped asking myself why I didn't sell this number of records, why I don't have corporate sponsorship. I just don't buy into any of that anymore.

My legacy is in my family, not in my work. For me. I don't know about for other people. I try to forget a lot.

It's so clear... there's no obstacle before determination. It sees it as an opportunity to shine.

If you are expressing gratitude then you are in the present moment. If you are in the present moment then you are expressing gratitude.

The imitation of Christ is the joyful participation in the sorrows of the world.

When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.

Labor with what zeal we will, Something still remains undone, Something uncompleted still Waits the rising of the sun.

You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break them.

I don't want to be rich, I just want to be loved.

A spiritual life means: It is now or never.

What is love but a second-hand emotion?

I don't think I've ever seen a piece of commercial software where the next version is simpler rather than more complex.