I was adopted when I was a baby. My mother carried me for nine months and she held me for one hour, and didn't see me again.

You learn a lot when you're barefoot. The first thing is every step you take is different.

All the freaky people make the beauty of the world.

We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace.

When many little people in many little places do many little things, then the whole world changes.

The music industry has been hijacked by corporate interests, but the way music affects people and resonates with them hasn't changed.

Be as radiant as the sun, as healing as the rain, as generous as a tree.

Life is too short to make just one decision, Music's too loud for just one station, Love is too big for just one nation, AND GOD IS TOO BIG FOR JUST ONE RELIGION...

I don't know if music can change the world overnight but I know that music can help someone make it through a difficult night.

Don't settle for something that's not great. Don't feel like having a relationship that is not serving your needs is more important than having a relationship with yourself.

Every single soul is a poem.

Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.

I’ve heard girls like it when you listen

The promise, made when I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love.

I can be bought. If they paid me enough, I'd work for the Klan.

My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.

The problem with fantasy is the greatest benefit of fantasy: it prevents us from living in the present moment.

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

It is simply not consistent with either my character or my confidence in my God-given athletic ability to cheat in any way.

I had a general outline of subjects. The way I start my days is my husband brings me a thermos of coffee up to the bedroom.

It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out that if you stop or curtail stop-and-frisk, or if cops are reluctant to do it, violent crimes are going to go up.