Whatever you do in this life, take time to sit quietly and let the world tell you what it needs from you. Take a moment to honestly understand what your gifts are-you have them.

When I began writing, it was a cosmic thing: Inspiration! Wham! Short spurts of time when I felt out of touch with reality, temporarily insane and the result: a song!

This is also an execellent time to ask this question: Did I get lazy and go for a quick rhyme?

What's interesting about songs where the writer is genuinely in love with words is that it's easy to read the lyrics like a poem.

Diana felt she was beginning to understand why, in all those novels she read, the headiest loves were the loves that couldn't be.

The fact that you lack the fruits is not a proof that you don’t have seeds. It’s not too late to drop your potentials into a good soil. Do it now

She loves mysteries so much, she became one.

Silence often speaks louder than words. To be heard is nice to be understood is divine.

Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private.

Change isn't easy, it takes time.

I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx.

I'm not fearful by nature, but I am vigilant. When you walk into a prison, it's important that a sixth sense kicks in.

The fact that educated white women automatically assume that we have similar backgrounds annoys me. We don't. I feel like I'm in a certain kind of drag.

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to Heaven.