The music is notated first, the text follows. I might have to wait until the right kind of text or form arises. I often see the poems as “scores.”

If I smashed the traditions it was because I knew no traditions. I'm the girl with the unquenchable thirst.

We can think for ourselves and we can awaken the world to a greater consciousness.

I took my vow to poetry; this is where I'm going to be. These are my people; this is my tribe. This is where I'm going to put my energy.

Our need to reimagine our world through the vibratory larynx, that's what matters. Re-awaken the world to itself. Through ideas, pictures, sounds. Hold the mirror up to "nature."

As a woman I have felt encouraged and fed by and nurtured by the work of [Jack] Kerouac and others.

We need a world-wide Department of Peace.

A lot of my life has involved with helping create cultures that have as their basis this vision of the sharing, the partaking of a certain ethos together.

Contemporary movies just drive me crazy. The violence and the sentimentality and the spiritual materialism and Theism and the incredible indulgence in ignorance is so claustrophobic.

I was going to public school in the post-World War II, the grey doldrum years. But I was in this extraordinary environment of Manhattan, of Greenwich Village, of bohemian parents.

I was not ever hitchhiking alone. I've done solo train trips but I've never driven myself alone.

Will be but corpses dressed in frocks, who cannot speak to birds or rocks.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss.

We will drink what we thirst for and eat what we hunger for if we allow ourselves to be used for what we were created for!

Accepting evolution does not force us to jettison our morals and ethics, and rejecting evolution does not ensure their constancy.

Believe in you because you are powerful.Ana Maria Frith, Limitless Change Your Life

I have a social philosophy; you have political opinions; he has an ideology.

There is nothing better than having a personal-best day, being in shape and pushing myself beyond my own limits.

Let's begin creating miracles now.

Time may restore us in his course Goethe's sage mind and Byron's force: But where will Europe's latter hour Again find Wordsworth's healing power?