Music attacks my inner ear like an antagonist, it's not my world.

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Once a year go somewhere you have never been before.

Once I became a cop and it's like when I got back into drumming; if I focus on something I become that, so I became a cop.

It's made me realize that imperfect is perfectly comfortable to me. Whether it's a city or my apartment, I feel most at home when things are somewhat flawed.

Hip Hop will always have a lane of its own, for those that appreciate the culture.

Don't be reckless with other peoples hearts. And don't put up with people that are reckless with yours.

Be kind and honest, and harmful poisons will turn sweet inside you.

I don't wear bright orange clothes or leopard skin boots, but it was really good fun to play someone that does and have an excuse too!

I think everyone thinks their family is insane, and every family is insane. There is no real normal.

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.