You're just an empty cage girl, if you kill the bird.

For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun.

Women must understand that simply attacking or hating men is just another form of disempowerment. A woman has to realize that when she makes a man crawl it doesn't give her power.

Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field.

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.

Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.

We are all fairies living underneath a leaf of a lily pad.

It's emotional blackmail to say if you're a good businesswoman and a musician, you're betraying your music.

People think I'm nuts because I can sit in a room and be happy by myself.

The sense of loss is such a tricky one, because we always feel like our worth is tied up into stuff that we have, not that our worth can grow with things we are willing to lose.

Some people hide more than others, and it does intrigue me.

Our happiness or misery depends upon our perception, not on the situation.

I say haven’t we had enough of just tossing our children in jail? Make them do community service, I say!

I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship.

I love anybody funny. I think my ten-year-old sister is really funny. She makes me laugh way more than most people do.

Busy with the ugliness of the expensive success We forget the easiness of free beauty Lying sad right around the corner, Only an instant removed, Unnoticed and squandered.

I feel guilty because I want to act more than I want to write songs. I'm a person who likes to transition; I like to grow.

At books, or work, or healthy play, Let all my years be passed; That I may give for every day A good account at last.

It doesn't matter if you win or lose, until you lose.

And while other passions in your life may at some point begin to bank their fires, the shared happiness of good homemade food can last as long as we do.

I'll be there for you, as long as it works for me. I play a game, its called insincerity.