When I felt that fame - people were nosing me out - well, I moved on. I used traveling names; wigs if necessary.

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.

Don't play any game if you don't understand the rules no matter how nice winners trophy looks like

That's all science fiction was ever about. Hating the way things are, wanting to make things different.

A clockwork heart can't replace the real thing.

A good producer brings out the best in the artist he's working with. You shouldn't be able to listen to something and say, 'So-and-so produced this album.

I don't hold grudges.

One of the reasons my ex-husband and I broke up is that he stopped eating my food.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon - it's time to cash in.

Women's liberation could have not succeeded if science had not provided them with contraception and household technology.

I'm a poet who can whine in meter

There's a lot of Americans, black and white, who think that we've arrived where we need to be and nothing else needs to be done and affirmative action needs to be dismantled.