You loved a man with more hands than a parade of beggars, and here you stand. Heart like a four-poster bed. Heart like a canvas. Heart leaking something so strong they can smell it in the street.”

Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.

Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.

I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.

At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.

Can one invent verbs? I want to tell you one: I sky you, so my wings extend so large to love you without measure.

I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.

I wanted to tell you that my whole being opened for you. Since I fell in love with you everything is transformed and is full of beauty... love is like an aroma, like a current, like rain.

Sexism and racism are parallel problems. You can compare them in some ways, but they're not at all the same. But they're both symptoms inside the white male power structure.

Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.

I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.

I'm worried about my friend not being imagined complexly enough.

The only way to find happiness is to make someone happy.

Aggression is the first step on the slippery slope to selfishness and chaos.

Action will furnish belief,-but will that belief be the true one? This is the point, you know.

What we need is love, to guide and protect us on.

Betray not a secret even though racked by wine or wrath.

Nostalgia is the bane of rock 'n' roll. He had the courage to let it all hang out. ... He was a considerable talent.

Being honored at Berklee College of Music; I got a doctorate. I am Doctor Patti.

I think a lot of things could be handled locally.

Why I'm interested in filmmaking is because a moving image is very, very powerful when it comes to changing human behavior.