Music is also one of the great heart openers. Sometimes, you hear the lyrics of a song and you dance, laugh, smile, or perhaps even cry.

You learn a lot when you're barefoot. The first thing is every step you take is different.

All the freaky people make the beauty of the world.

We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace.

When many little people in many little places do many little things, then the whole world changes.

The music industry has been hijacked by corporate interests, but the way music affects people and resonates with them hasn't changed.

Be as radiant as the sun, as healing as the rain, as generous as a tree.

Life is too short to make just one decision, Music's too loud for just one station, Love is too big for just one nation, AND GOD IS TOO BIG FOR JUST ONE RELIGION...

I don't know if music can change the world overnight but I know that music can help someone make it through a difficult night.

Don't settle for something that's not great. Don't feel like having a relationship that is not serving your needs is more important than having a relationship with yourself.

Every single soul is a poem.

I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them.

Depressing thought: my friends were the girls I ate lunch with, all buddies from kindergarten who knew one another so well we weren't sure if we even liked one another anymore.

You could’ve pushed me away for years, I still wouldn’t have gone anywhere. I’d still be at your side, annoying the hell out of you until you finally agreed to marry me.

I think that the religious and the military right wings are just two sides of the same coin if somebody uses God and religion and somebody uses country and security.

I'm more proud of my upper body. Let's just say I'm a typical female in that way.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

Universal violence compels the language to be mute . . . . Silence is not only a metaphor of Hemingway's work; it is also the source of its formal excellence, its integrity.

Most good founders that I know at any given time have a set of small overarching goals for the company that everybody in the company knows.

Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.

I'm the f***ing Prime Minister!