People used to say nobody can sing my songs but me, they're too personal.

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.

Keep a logical but open mind. What one may pass off as a psychological dysfunction could be a burst of imagination at its finest.

Some liars are so expert they deceive themselves.

Sometimes a thing that's hard is hard because you're doing it wrong. (Point Omega)

Could the situation be that we no longer believe in that particular place? Or maybe we were all promised Heaven in our lifetimes, and what we ended up with can't help but suffer in comparison.

Film is abstract, not definite. It is a dream.

Foreign aid breeds kleptocracies, or governments of thieves.

Hardly any animal can look as deeply disappointed as a dog to whom one says "no."

Being a teenager is as difficult as living with one. And we've all been there. Perhaps that's the reason we're so hard on them.

We don't we agree that litigation reform to lower the cost of healthcare would be a good starting point?

I've never really been the type of person who worries much about what people think of me.