Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.

We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.

Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart.

When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.

Chase away the demons, and they will take the angels with them.

We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

Freedom to me is a luxury of being able to follow the path of the heart, to keep the magic in your life. Freedom is necessary for me in order to create, and if I cannot create I don’t feel alive.

Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it.

Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.

All my battles were with male egos. I’m just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision.

Give me spots on my apples, but leave me the birds and the bees, please.

The ordinary can be like medicine.

From a very young age, stories fuelled my imagination in the most wonderful way.

The ocean is the lifeblood of our world.

I am wired on some deep level to seek out something to be worried and obsess about.

Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just "virtual reality".

I have been known to go to the grocery store and just buy pepperoni. There's just something fantastic about salty, fatty meats.

Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.

Irresolution and mutability are often the faults of men whose views are wide, and whose imagination is vigorous and excursive.

Human love is mostly selfishness; all the time it thinks only of the little 'i'. That 'i' is the ego.