The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources.

Ugly ducklings don't turn into swans and glide off down the lake. Whether your sunglasses are on or off, you only see the world you make.

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.

There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late '60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to girls at Harvard was four to one, so all of those things were playing in my mind.

Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste.

Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet - nobody taxes the sun yet.

It's incredible to see labor unions and environmentalists getting together to stop the corporate mentality that destroys both jobs and the environment.

We can live in fear or act out of hope.

It's always enjoyable to listen to a friend's work, but if it doesn't resonate with you, then you can just appreciate it and it inspires you in its own way.

We can choose, you know, we ain't no amoeba.

Hey…you don’t look like a rabbit.

Life, like classical music, is full of difficult passages that are conquered as much through endurance and determination as through any particular skill.

Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.

I have no wife whom I love so well that I would not put a javelin through her heart, and I would do it with clean hands.

When we are parted, let me lie In some far corner of thy heart Silent, and from the world apart, Like a forgotten melody

Whoa, I've really got to stop making plans with fictional characters. It can't be healthy to develop relationships with people who don't exist.

There is a lovely root to the word humiliation - from the latin word humus, meaning soil or ground. When we are humiliated, we are in effect returning to the ground of our being.

A nation's path to greatness lies in its economic prowess and ... militarism, empire, and aggression lead to a dead end.

Astronauts: space activists.

I don't cook very well at all. I'm the girl that can't make scrambled eggs.