Music is my only guide. I don't care if people pigeonhole me. Miles Davis is my hero. He covered Cindy Lauper and Michael Jackson, and he didn't give a hoot about what the purists said.

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.

For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are.

We can't all be stars because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as I go by.

Old Mother Hubbard Went to the cupboard To get her dear dog a bone.Though the cupboard was bare, When she focused elsewhereHer heart overflowed with fun!

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

A book is kind because its pages let us know when it is coming to an end.

I believe that much of the maladjustment in our societies is caused, not by malevolence and corruption, but simply by ignorance.

I love mixing with comedians when I'm working with them, but when I'm not I don't feel the need to hang around with them.

It is vain to say that enlightened statesmen will always be able to adjust their interests. Enlightened men will not always be at the helm.

No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.