Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing.

People have the strength to overcome their bodies. Their beauty is in their minds.

Dream big and surround yourself with brilliance, even if you end up dressed up like a flower or a sexually transmitted disease.

Surround yourself with brilliance.

I hold the line, the line of strength that pulls me from the fear.

From the pain come the dream From the dream come the vision From the vision come the people From the people come the power From this power come the change.

Music is a spiritual doorway. ... Its power comes from the fact that It plugs directly into the soul.

Words, they climb all over you/'Til they uncover you From where you hide.

Whenever there's a camera around, a video or film camera, it's a great deal harder for those in power to bury the story.

Self-conscious, uncertain, I'm showered by the dust. But the spirit enters into me and I submit to trust.

I look at the time with you to keep me awake and alive.

School made us 'literate' but did not teach us to read for pleasure.

We all know, intuitively, that if something is humanly possible, it is possible for ourselves.

The real drag is trying to fly from country to country, day of show, with all your gear. You get hassled all the time. It's hard trying to keep it together.

We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women-whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.

You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

If you're going to be alive and on this planet, you have to, like, suck the marrow out of every day and get the most out of it.

Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will Curse you.

It's a game of integrity. There's no referees out there. We all respect each other.

I didn't think I was an actor and fought it for a long time. Nobody paid for that but me.

The presumptuous sin of Uzzah was that He assumed his hands were less polluted than the dirt.