Realize the self of yourself.

Who is the self that you are helping?

If you think people should be thanking you instead of you thanking people you've got it backwards

Life is your teacher no matter what. You can't have an experience that doesn't teach you something.

You don't have to be where you find yourself to be.

Awareness can be controlled by the world or you can be in control of it. You have the choice. Who is in control, that's the question to keep asking yourself.

In the monastery,  you are always in some kind of a situation where you are pressured so that your worst qualities come up. But you actually want that to happen so you can deal with them

The deeper in you go the more unique you become

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.

Ideas pull the trigger but instinct loads the gun.

I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.

I used to be very insecure about my curly hair, because I lived in a country where everybody had blonde straight hair.

In the Heaven's above, the angels, whispering to one another, can find, among their burning terms of love, none so devotional as that of 'Mother.

The risks are 'How country can you go?' rather than 'How rock can you take it?'

The Fun Girl video which was directed by Bijoux Altamarino really came out of her vision. I feel she understood the mystery, danger and power of the song and It really came through in the end.

The greatest leader in the world could never win a campaign unless he understood the men he had to lead.

Even by rock star standards, I was pretty awful.

I'm a feminist because I believe in women... it's a heavy word, feminism, but it's not one I think we should run from. I'm proud to be a feminist.