Read. Read all the time. Read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life.” (Wellesly High School commencement speech, “You Are Not Special”, 6-12)

I learned how to stop crying.I learned how to hide inside of myself.I learned how to be somebody else.I learned how to be cold and numb.

I'm very positive - music-wise, production-wise and life-wise.

You don't have to know everything in the world. We aren't supposed to. It makes you boring in mixed company if you can't be interested and ask questions of other people.

Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.

When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good.

When love and compassion fills your heart, you find newness in every moment, and life becomes a celebration.

A story, after all, does not only belong to the one who is telling it. It belongs, in equal measure, to the one who is listening.

You need not know what you are. Enough to know what you are not. What you are you will never know, for every discovery reveals new dimensions to conquer. The unknown has no limits.

All separation, every kind of estrangement and alienation is false. All is one.