Change has to come for life to struggle forward.

Two people can only live as one when each is prepared to give and receive trust and understanding. Above that lies respect. Without respect for how the other feels, no marriage is worthwhile.

It never leaves, not with someone we love. Their presence burns too vivid in our memories. Happen that is as it should be, for otherwise we would too easy forget.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

You cannot win if you're not at the table. You have to be where the action is.

You couldn't release the single on its own, because no one wanted it.

ONE OF THE UNSETTLING THINGS about my journey, mentally, physically, and emotionally, was that I wasn’t sure when or where it was going to end.

Thinking of nothing. Trying to think of nothing. Thinking of everything.

If I can be an example of getting sober, then I can be an example for starting over

Like art, political action gives shape and expression to the things we fear as well as to those we desire. It is a creative process, drawing on the power to imagine as well as to act.

On the Continent and elsewhere in the West, native populations are aging and fading and being supplanted remorselessly by a young Muslim demographic.

There's something really emotional about not having any sound. That allows, I think, the audience to participate more actively and kind of imagine what are they talking about there?

I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.