When I am ever in any situation that's getting too heavy, I lighten it up with humor.

If my artist life didn't work or if I needed to work in some capacity part-time in something, I knew I'd have a real life skill [become a therapist].

You will be faced with facing all the things in yourself that keep you from knowing who you are, you'll have to stand up to roles and definitions that your family and culture have given you.

Working with the body and the imagination - non-verbal ways especially - tap into our deepest wounds and our highest potentials as humans.

My mother used to say, "When you can learn to laugh at yourself, a lot of healing comes from that."

The unconscious mind is way bigger than the conscious mind. Using tools to access its wisdom and self-organizing features is powerful medicine.

If you can see yourself more than just a victim, aha, now you've got the place to move into that is much more vital and creative and is resourceful than being a victim.

Coming into Pacifica I knew that I wanted whatever I was going to learn there, I knew I wanted to integrate that into my art no matter what.

I took everything really seriously and was overly sensitive about things, and I think that's rooted in perfectionism.

Being successful as a creative person is a crapshoot, but it's essential if you feel drawn to being creative that you express it.

Being a therapist can be very serious though. There are people's lives in your hands. For me, it was too much.

Don’t Waste your time I won’t be around Your heart For so long …………….Baby don’t Wait for me Tonight I’ll be in another town Looking for love ………………….

During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams

The victim is always morally superior to the master

The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing; if ill-packed, next to nothing.

You know, we do a lot of complaining here in America. And that itself is something they can't do in a lot of other countries.

Still shaking, in the pew, I understood that it isn't the dead we cry for. We cry for ourselves, and I didn't deserve my own pity.

Man is Creation's masterpiece. But who says so?

Failure is not meant to be final and fatal.... It is meant to refine you to be all that you are meant to be.

I think that maybe inside any business, there is someone slowly going crazy

Some moments are perfect, and then someone comes along and f*cks it up. Ain't it always the way.