Ten minutes before you go onstage and you begin singing that torchy blues song, you may just be drinking a glass of water and brushing your teeth and doing some deep breathing.

I don't care how somebody gets their education, as long as they have one.

I do use reality because I want my work to feel real, I want it to feel heartfelt. I don't want to make it up and have it sound corny or unrelatable.

Singers, musicians, and songwriters don't want to use the word "acting" because we want it to be more real than that - we want it to come from us: naturally, truly, really.

I was brought up in the Christian church and I studied in the teachings of Jesus. I believed in caring for others and trying to be kind. It's something I still have to work on every day.

Things are changing. They need to change more. It should not be of any note that a woman does something, because women do everything.

Artists are able to do well in the political arena because of fame, if only they can educate themselves.

If you just take one foot in front of the other without any protection, you may end up falling off the fence.

The line is very delicate and fine between being what one might call sane or insane, well or unwell.

Feminism has nothing to do with partisanship.

Every straight man I know is a feminist. They wouldn't be my friends if they weren't.

A sad truth is that we don't know what we really believe! We don't know how we operate. We don't know what is holding us back. We don't know why we do what we do.

Pleasure is a reciprocal no one feels it who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased one must please.

When an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance and when he is dead we rate them by his best.

I picked and co-wrote the songs that if I was a guy who would be spending my hard-earned money buying an album I would want to hear.

I'm so happy dancing while the grim reaper cuts, cuts, cuts, but he can't get me. I'm as clever as can be, and I'm very quick but don't forget; we've only got so many tricks. no one lives forever.

If critics of 'readable fiction' want literature to change the ways people dream, they need first to come down from the mountain and speak to the people.

Love would never b a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with a light of faith, water of sincerity, and an art of passion.

My God, I'm four hundred years old and the most I can do is look three hundred.

Anthropocentrism, regarding human kind as the very center and pinnacle of existence, is a disease of arrested development.

Actually, I began to think that maybe there is a god, after all. Or maybe its a different one. The old one got fired.