The sense of traveling this continent, also other continents. The friendship.I would say a non-competitive friendship. That is so amazing to me.

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.

We are using missile defense to protect our civilians, and they're using their civilians to protect their missiles.

I feel that when you care about your music, taking risks is something you should do to keep things exciting.

Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

I believe people who practice their beliefs in daily life are activists.

I've seen the future and it's murder.

Grace in the soul is heaven in that soul.

Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.

As long as you think the problem is out there, that very thought is the problem

I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater.