I am a mystic and am directed by an internal compass. I am not outer-directed.

Risking one's life can be strangely liberating. That's what the sea counsels me.

Design in black and white. Add color for emphasis, when your design is complete.

I became a boat captain because I loved the water and had been on a boat since I was eight. I captained the boat by myself because I liked being alone.

Running a boat isn't that hard. Just takes doing. Most or all women I ever knew were discouraged from running boats, but it was too late with me.

The feminist movement has not made it to the Gulf of Mexico. Never seen that movement.

No Winter lasts forever no Spring skips its turn. April is a promise that May is bound to keep and we know it.

May you find INSPIRATION in the big picture, but may you find LOVE in the details.

I don't expect that because I was successful in one field that I will then get a ride of passage into another.

"Some persons hold," he pursued, still hesitating, "that there is a wisdom of the Head, and that there is a wisdom of the Heart..."

I would totally lose myself in the music and be a gypsy. I would go wherever I wanted to in my head - wherever the music took me. My body followed.

Coming out is the most political thing you can do

We formed the fellowship of the ring when we should've all just gone on medication

I love all kinds of music. Everybody knows that Nas is my favorite lyricist in the universe. I'd love to collaborate with him on something.

Barack Obama is president of a superpower and I'm a citizen of a small state.

Color is sensibility in material form, matter in its primordial state.