Adolescence is that time when I think, it can be- it's the cruelest place on Earth. It can really be heartless.

For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun.

Women must understand that simply attacking or hating men is just another form of disempowerment. A woman has to realize that when she makes a man crawl it doesn't give her power.

Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field.

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.

Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.

We are all fairies living underneath a leaf of a lily pad.

It's emotional blackmail to say if you're a good businesswoman and a musician, you're betraying your music.

People think I'm nuts because I can sit in a room and be happy by myself.

The sense of loss is such a tricky one, because we always feel like our worth is tied up into stuff that we have, not that our worth can grow with things we are willing to lose.

Some people hide more than others, and it does intrigue me.

If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.

She put others before herself and yet you hate her. What did she do to you?

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved.

I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.

I could weep for a river-valley, and I have. But for a country? Oh man, I don't know.

When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.

In intellectual honesty, we should be willing to study and explore the spiritual life with all the rigor and determination we would give to any field of research.

The unhappy persistence of both the practice and the lingering effects of racial discrimination ...is an unfortunate reality...and the government is not disqualified from acting in response to it.

Argument weak; speak loudly!

To be unafraid of the judgement of others is the greatest freedom you can have.