Music speaks from spirit to spirit and in that sense you could call it a true spiritual language.

Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.

The whole point of working and practicing your whole life is so that you're ready when that moment arrives; when the inspiration arrives, you are ready to be at the disposal of inspiration.

Spirituality is worthless if it's not practical. Music is my work. I am a musician.

I practice all the scales. Everyone should know lots of scales. Actually, I feel there are only scales. What is a chord, if not the notes of a scale hooked together?

My entire life is dedicated to music, and at my age, that makes a lot of years! But all the work and dedication is only that I'm able to forget myself and let the music do the 'talking.'

There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.

I'm not any different from you or the guy down the street or across the globe, we're all connected in some way and hopefully my music can integrate that feeling of human connectedness.

I believe everybody is spiritual and no one is any more spiritual than anyone else.

I'm never trying to preach to anybody with my music, but I'm aware of the universal nature of the human experience and I try to reach out and connect with people in that manner.

The music dictates to me which instrument I use. I'm basically waiting for orders as it were.

The crack in your heart allows light in. ~ GOOD FORTUNE page 238

If a woman chooses to support her husband and become First Lady, I believe she must do so with the understanding that the public expects the full-meal deal.

Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while.

We all just really love teen movies and teen music and I've just always been fixated on that, so I'm just kind of immature about that kind of stuff still.

I knew of Senator [George] Mitchell because he was very close friends with who was soon to be the senior senator, Paul Sarbanes. Paul Sarbanes and George Mitchell were kind of pals together.

My theory is that we used to have several personalities, and now we're encouraged to have one online.

I am an honest girl, M. le Vicomte de Chagny, and I don't lock myself up in my dressing-room with men's voices.

I've heard that while the show was on there were no reported crimes, or very few. When The Beatles were on Ed Sullivan, even the criminals had a rest for ten minutes.

There is an army of waiters in this world.

I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.