Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block.

We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.

Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart.

When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.

Chase away the demons, and they will take the angels with them.

We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

Freedom to me is a luxury of being able to follow the path of the heart, to keep the magic in your life. Freedom is necessary for me in order to create, and if I cannot create I don’t feel alive.

Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it.

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.

Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.

All my battles were with male egos. I’m just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision.

i over love.i under love.i am either a floodor i am nothing.

The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.

I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.

I used to think that seniority was a terrible thing when I didn't have any.

Neither a space station nor an enlightened mind can be realized in a day.

My time of martial arts was traditional.

Once we know and are aware, we are responsible for our action and our inaction. We can do something about it or ignore it. Either way, we are still responsible.

It could all be so simple, but you'd rather make it hard, loving you is like a battle, and we both end up with scars

Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.