There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her.

I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee.

My look was even more solidified when I started singing in Greenwich Village with my sister Lucy. We wore matching dresses as the Simon Sisters.

I just want to show off my scar proudly and not be afraid of it.

A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.

The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind.

Everyone has problems, and learning to share them is essential. Hiding pain requires an enormous amount of energy; sharing it is liberating.

You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new.

I've learned that nobody's perfect, and I don't expect myself to be perfect anymore.

Life is a dream even in its most painful moments, it's a dream that we can dance to.

My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow.

There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature.

We cannot measure time. We can only measure changes of life and the universe.

We do believe that freedom, the right to choose, the right to vote, respect and justice is the fundamental right of all people. All people must obtain these rights.

I don't listen to the radio very much, but that could be because I don't have a car.

There are powerful forces undermining progress in Africa. But one must never underestimate the power of the people to bring about change.

To feel sorry for the needy is not the mark of a Christian - to help them is.

If you know that you have had countless lives, then what happens in this life is not quite as traumatic.

It takes a greater God to steer a world populated with free agents than it does to steer a world of preprogrammed automatons.

[The] arresting of time is photography's unique capacity, and the decision of when to click the shutter is the photographer's chief responsibility.

Verbalizing design is another act of design.