When I choose material for an album all these songs I grew up with pour into my head.

You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served".

I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.

What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.

You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.

Life is short. People are not easy to know. They're not easy to know, so if you don't tell them how you feel, you're not going to get anywhere, I feel.

You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.

Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.

How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it

There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.

Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking.

When fiction has become reality, life may turn into a fairy tale or a firestorm. Tina, time has come to pull up one’s socks and start relearning and reassessing living. ("Another empty room")

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Brands play in an exciting sandbox of symbolic meanings.

We can be ethical only in relation to something we can see, feel, understand, love, or otherwise have faith in.

You should be treating yourself like you are your own best friend.

If an animal is named after what it eats, how interesting is it?

As soon as an actor has faith in a director, he just goes with it.

And when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden, You will find yourself a partner in the Glory of the Garden.

The heart is cooking a pot of food for you. Be patient until it is cooked

What we link to pleasure and what we link to pain determines our destiny.