You should never be too much involved... otherwise, you suffer and you can't sing. This is what happened in the very first years I sang Madame Butterfly.

The best advice I can give a young aspiring singer is not to become an old aspiring singer.

I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.

When we talk about our lives, long or short, brief and tragic or enduring beyond comprehension, we impose a continuity on them, and that continuity is a lie.

The right wing in this country is waging a war against women, and let me be very clear, it is not a war that we are going to allow them to win.

I always learned to be philanthropic... to give back.

Beware of the conversationalist who adds "in other words." He is merely starting afresh.

Earth shall be fair, and all her folk be one!

Accepting means you allow yourself to feel whatever it is you are feeling at that moment. It is part of the isness of the Now. You can't argue with what is. Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer.

Maybe 'okay' will be our 'always

People respect you because they feel you've survived hard times and endured, and although you've become famous, you haven't become phony.

Though we are involved in social work, our goal is to be contemplatives at the heart of the world. We are with Jesus twenty-four hours a day. We do everything for Jesus. We do it all unto Jesus.