The artist...is the voice of the people.

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.

Don't hide your emptiness. Fill it with love and give it away to fill your life with joy.

The best decision you could make in an event of failure, is to still believe in yourself.

Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.

Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line.

Advice: Don’t wait until someone you have issues with — especially someone you’re related to — gets shot before you work it out.

[In 2011 on Steve Jobs] He was the most amazing person I have ever know. He was a genius. He was an innovator. He was the best client we ever had. He was my friend.

I'm drawn to the psychology of really interesting, flawed people.

After youve been married quite a few years, you learn to take orders; it just comes easy.

Its just I fell into a bunch of movies that kind of fit in my life. It made sense to do them in the 80s. Folks who know me think its hilarious.

The stigma of self-inflicted death is for some people a hateful blot that demands erasure at all costs.