The times you impress me the most are the times when you don't try.

We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.

Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart.

When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.

Chase away the demons, and they will take the angels with them.

We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

Freedom to me is a luxury of being able to follow the path of the heart, to keep the magic in your life. Freedom is necessary for me in order to create, and if I cannot create I don’t feel alive.

Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it.

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.

Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.

All my battles were with male egos. I’m just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision.

People who are driven by their values will overcome hurdles, difficulties, and obstacles in ways that people driven only by profit will never be able to

To set up what you like against what you dislike, this is the disease of the mind.

Persistence Pays...Period.

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.

I've had a lot of practice and wrong's what I do best.

The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.

Speech isn't for agony.

[B]inary opposites fit nicely the formulation of history as written, but they do little to capture the messy, inchoate reality of history as lived.

Radio... force-feeds us music... everywhere and all the time... sewage-water music in which music is dying.

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.