Making music should not be left to the professionals.

I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world.

As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I've been traveling.

I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.

When I grow up I want to be an old woman.

I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make.

Vengeance and revenge are just two words for pain.

Music is too important to be left to professionals.

I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.

I'm one of the few that comes from this vantage point: I never tried to get a record deal.

Prayer is so incredibly powerful. It keeps you in perfect peace.

A child may be "spoiled" by a lack of training or by inappropriate love that gives or trains incorrectly.

It was like adults had their own little world that we weren't allowed to be a part of, and it didn't make sense because we were part of the world, too.

That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered.

When I see a new artist I give myself a lot of time to reflect and decide whether it's art or not.

Rastafari not a culture, it's a reality.

Scotland is the country above all others that I have seen, in which a man of imagination may carve out his own pleasures; there are so many inhabited solitudes.

Winning an argument with your wife is like winning the war with Iraq. Once you win, you're in even more trouble.

Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality.

I grew up in Boston, so it's a nice change to be cold after living in California.

Change your thoughts... charge your life.