Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.

Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.

I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

Grammarians make no new thoughts, but thoughts make new grammar.

You think it can't get worse than wanting someone and not having them, but it can. You can want someone, have them, and want them more. Still. Always. You can never get enough.

We remember, we rebuild, we come back stronger.

Like the actor, authority has faith in its false whiskers. But its deepest faith is in the human illusion. People will hang on to illusion as eagerly as life itself.

The only good thing I can say about the deal with Iran is that it brought the Arab states and Israel closer together.

Art is all about becoming a name, a brand; it isn't based on talent or creativity.

My whole life was duality: Here's my life at home, here's my life on the road.

Within the character of the citizen, lies the welfare of the nation.

Cold glass, how you insert yourself Between myself and myself. I scratch like a cat. The blood that runs is dark fruit- An effect, a cosmetic. You smile. No, it is not fatal.

I'm always interested in hearing how other people read and react to my songs. I hadn't thought of it in just that way.