When I write my music I see all the rivers flowing... sensual, spiritual, religious, animal, intellectual.

As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration.

They say a woman's place Is to wait and serve Under the veil Submissive and dear But I think my place Is in a ship from space To carry me The hell out of here.

I'm not scared of dyin', and I don't really care if it's peace you find in dyin'. Well then let the time be near. And when I die and when I'm gone there'll be one child born and a world to carry on.

Nothing cures like time and love.

Sometimes only poetry can say it. I think there's just this deeper language, and away of putting your world back together again and breaking through barriers.

I was raised on the good book Jesus Till I read between the lines Now I don't believe I ever wanna see the morning

If it's peace you find in dying, well then let the time be near.

I lost my eyes In east wind skies Here's where I've cried Where I've tried Where God and the Tendaberry rise Where Quakers and revolutionaries Join for life

Emily And her love to be Carved in a heart On a berry tree But it's only a little farewell lovespell Time to design a woman

You can see the walls roar See your brains on the floor Become God Become cripple Become funky

One writer may speak of something more lasting than Horace Greeley when he writes of that editor that his secular philanthropy drifted into autocratic ambition.

The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

What if Jesus was the only normal person who ever lived?

The metaphysical image that a definite epoch forges of the world has the same structure as what the world immediately understands to be appropriate as a form of its political organization.

You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same.

One of the reasons that politics lets us down is that we keep comparing it to our ideal narratives, to politics on TV or in the movies, which is tidier and better fits such structures.

I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate.

Conviction is the conscience of intellect.

The number one key to success in life is to master your own state. If you can manage and master your states, there's nothing you can't do.