Politics swings like a pendulum.

As a musician you have to keep one foot back in the past and have one foot forward into the future.

I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.

I think one of the problems the Democrats have today is that they are an elitist party.

Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.

It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.

One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.

Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans.

You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have it.

I try to play the bare essence, to let everything be just what it's supposed to be.

The sign of a mature musician is knowing what not to play.

The man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably

Words are only words

As a writer, you don't just write for the ears, you also write for the eyes.

This is a time of great confusion, of great darkness; other networks are slipping in through other dimensional planes. Soon the network of enlightenment will leave this earth.

I've always made my own clothes since I was a little girl. I was a terrible sewer, but I was always cutting and customising.

I know I'm known for singing some of those high notes but that's really not what giving someone goose bumps is all about. It's about really trying to find what makes you unique...

If you don't think you're hurt, then you aren't

When I was younger, my feet would hurt a lot, but you build up calluses and strength and you don't feel as much pain there.

Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.

Life is like pouring water into a Coca- Cola bottle; if you're the least bit scared you can't do it