The thing that helped me come to terms with performing was an anxiety, a desperation for acceptance. There was never enough positive motivation in my life.

There were times when I had maybe a couple of hundred dollars, and times I made myself think I was on top of the world.

Sometimes when you're overwhelmed by a situation - when you're in the darkest of darkness - that's when your priorities are reordered.

I know there's a consciousness energy that operates completely independent of the physical body you inhabit, that maintains... awareness after the body's gone.

The most common misconception about me is that I'm basically a jazz singer.

I wanted to be the greatest woman guitarist alive. I had fantasies about being a female Jimi Hendrix.

My life was very tenuous last year. My daughter's death, in March in 2007, was unexpected. It was a shock. I didn't know if I'd survive it.

A friend hipped me to hypoglycemia, which an article I read calls 'a disease for a nation of sugar junkies.' Who knows how many people in this country have it?

Once I get out onstage, it's the same sort of basic production that it is anywhere else. But I might be a little bit aware that there might be people I know out there, who wondered where I was.

If the baby is sick, you won't find me showing up to play my gigs. If I have a contract, there is going to be a clause in that contract saying that if the baby is sick I will not appear.

I lost interest in being in the public eye.

Being connected to everything has disconnected us from ourselves and the preciousness of this present moment.

In one study, old people assigned to a geriatrics team stayed independent for far longer, and were admitted to the hospital less.

Nowadays when I walk around, I get noticed, which is kind of weird.

I often play a move I know how to refute.

Our job is going to be to hold Donald Trump and the Republican majority accountable.

Obedience to God's will is the secret of spiritual knowledge and insight.

No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge

Thierry had no idea why they were called French doors. His native countrymen weren't stupid enough to put them in their homes.

I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.

I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.