Music has as many roles as people make it.

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.

God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.

They can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need, is one-in-a-million and they can call me brilliant if I succeed.

One of my rules is: Never TRY to do anything. Just do it.

Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear.

Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot.

We are wise women, we are giggling girls. We both carry a smile to show when we're pleased, we both carry a switchblade in our sleeves.

We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom.

Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society?

I wonder what you look like under your t-shirt. I wonder what you sound like when you're not wearing words. I wonder what we have when we're not pretending.

Love yourself and feel the joy of life.

Everything is a mystery, ourselves, and all things both simple and humble.

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

Irving Berlin has no place in American music -- he is American music.

One thing that you hope for when you want to be a musician is that you have that recognizable sound.

Whenever we are appreciative, we are filled with a sense of well-being and swept up by the feeling of joy.

...even the most horribl e of nightmares is laced with the promise of dawn.

I've learned that success comes in a very prickly package. Whether you choose to accept it or not is up to you.

One of the things I was so glad that happened to me on Knots was that I learned to relax.

Most of the volcanoes are pretty far away. You have to go to, God knows, Alaska. Or you have to go to the Southern Indies or you have to go to a specific island.