If I didn't think and feel the way I think and feel, I couldn't sing the way I sing. And I like singing the way I sing.

When we make mistakes, say, I'm blessed that I have an opportunity to learn from this.

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.

Once women are not excluded, I don't think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn't the point.

Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?

Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling.

To be always in a state of wonder is a kind of sensitivity that can sometimes be an extraordinary blessing and sometimes a real pain.

I am selfish. I reach for the world I want to live in. And I believe in leaving our best we can do to our children

Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas a lullaby is intended to put a child to sleep in a sweet way.

You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it.

You can't just leave out one part; the bread won't rise if the yeast isn't there.

I laugh, and it sounds like I've been sucking helium.

The true nature of a thing is the highest it can become.

It's such a contentious thing to get people in a room and just say, "go!"

Most people can't handle a structureless life.

That’s all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there.

Know this. I think you could be special if you only thought there was anything special about yourself.

The king, just and prudent, wants only those things which he can get.

We are forward planning and strategic on what the planet will look like with climate change as we decide to go into various areas of the world if we have to.

Women's eyes are wanderers, and too often bring home guests that are very troublesome to them, and whom, once introduced, they cannot get out of the house.

The problem is that the Chicken-Soup-for-the-Soul stuff may feel good, but none of that typical stuff helps when somebody in your neighborhood is murdered.