You've just got to follow your own path. You have to trust your heart and you have to listen to the warnings.

The bickering and fighting and hating that women do with each other - it's going to kill us as a race of people.

It's time for those of us who have a voice to speak out for life, for love and for justice using the same media we've used throughout our careers.

When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didnt go over a cliff.

As you get older, though, you realize there are fire extinguishers. You do have an ability to control the flames.

But really, we also need to learn how to love one another as women. How to appreciate and respect each other.

I want to give some positive messages and to empower some people.

I'd been in a vicious cycle and circle of people and couldn't see my way out. So I picked myself up one day about 15 years ago and moved where I didn't know anyone.

Painted faces, sun burnt skin, fixed expressions, smiles worn thin.

I'm a woman and I'm a backbone...everybody needs one.

If I wanted to fight to make a better world racially, I wouldn't be in the music business. You dig, if I were going to be a freedom fighter music is the wrong field.

Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.

Creativity flourishes in solitude.

Concentrate on the road ahead, not on the road behind!

There were only four dissentients, the three dogs and the cat, who was afterwards discovered to have voted on both sides.

There is no shame in being a survivor of sexual violence. The shame is on the aggressor.

It's what you always do. You confuse love for admiration.

We carry a new world in our hearts. That world is growing every minute.

The pursuit of individual happiness within those limits prescribed by social conditions, is the first requisite to the attainment of the greatest general happiness.

I'm a minimalist when it comes to design.

My childhood wasn't very happy. It's a long, grim story about being a Jew in a small southern town.