Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.

Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.

I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

What I do is the truest mirror of who I am.

Everything was perfectly healthy and normal here in Denial Land.

When one is pretending the entire body revolts.

It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

Peace, bread, work, and freedom is the best we can achieve.

I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.

When a manufacturing engineer is hired to create new products but insists on sharing his "wisdom" in accounting with the company controller, he is not going to last long in that company.

Then the American flag was saluted. In general, in the United States people always salute the American flag.

People come to New York to be different, but I go to Starbucks to be the same.

Our primary relationship is really with ourselves. Our relationships with other people constantly reflect exactly where we are in the process.