I'm the luckiest unlucky person.

Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either.

It's not the child's responsibility to teach the parent who they are. It's the parent's responsibility to learn who the child is.

I start crying when certain things come up, certain memories, certain feelings, and it's intense. But I think it's good for me - and therapeutic.

Life can very genuinely and realistically pile things on. It doesn't dole out the heartache and pain, or joy, perfectly.

When anything huge happens to me, I always think, this isn't my moment, this is a moment.

I love devastating movies, documentaries and hummingbirds (yes, in that order).

When I couldn't get ahold of cigarettes, I'd roll coffee grounds into typing paper and smoke that and then vomit.

My age makes all my wrinkles and gray hair make sense.

I didn't know whether I'd be attractive to anybody.

I didn't have an interest in school at all and was getting in trouble all the time.

If a lotus is to grow, it needs to be rooted in the mind.

I’ll be strong for you. Live me, baby. Live for me. Please.

Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.

Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at.

My life has been an open book, for better or for worse.

I always appreciated my teachers. When I was 16, I gave them the greatest gift I could think of. I dropped out of school.

I am glad so many women singers are being heard in music today. It is healthy for music . . . healthy because it means a lot of men are listening!

True leaders are born when you find something to die for

The devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for.

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.