I consider myself a feminist. My whole life has been about standing up for women, for anybody really, who's been abused.
Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity.
The language of music is common to all generations and nations; it is understood by everybody, since it is understood with the heart.
Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind.
Eating, loving, singing, and digesting are, in truth, the four acts of the comic opera known as life, and they pass like bubbles of a bottle of champagne. Whoever lets them break without having enjoyed them is a complete fool.
How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.
Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.
I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
I don't eat celery. I eat raw milk, cheeses.
I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.
You still wake up sometimes. You wake up in the dark and hear the screaming of the lambs.