The field of action of a photograph should be that chessboard of the heart and mind upon which poetry and art have always operated
I'm always tryin' to do something new, tryin' to look like a beginner.
Her beauty cannot be measured with standards of a colonized mind
Looking at the media today, I'm quite ashamed of myself, of things I've participated in. Everything is marketed to sex and gossip and it's just a shame that those are the things at the forefront, on people's minds, those are the things that make you popular, what you have on or how little you have on and it has nothing to do with music, nothing to do with sports it has nothing to do with the things so many communities put their faith in. It's just a sad place to be.
Music is like a lover that I can't commit to, but I seem to always find myself in bed with.
I dabble in the jazz world, which is male-dominated. If you had two women playing together, it became a shtick. It becomes a "girl group," and it has to be something cutesy. That's hard to contend with.
Once you encounter people who are really testing the limits of kindness, that's when you start to build up a shield and close yourself down.
The outside world wants me to have glamour; my fans want me glamorous. I won't let them down.
To love is to live on the precipice.
Buddhas don't practice nonsense.
Reincarnation. . . makes life what it is intended to be -- a glorious adventure in which victory is absolutely sure to be ours if we persist. It proves that man [is]. . . master of his fate on his road to the stars.