Everybody makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils
There has never been a time when I was not committed to, involved in, or caring of, the social and political issues of my world.
Pigeon-holes are only comfortable for pigeons.
Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself.
The very best thing that could happen to a voice, if it shows any promise at all, is when it is very young to leave it alone and to let it develop quite naturally, and to let the person go on as long as possible with the sheer joy of singing.
I am deeply spiritual; I revel in those things that make for good - the things that we can do to shed a little light, to help place an oft-dissonant universe back in tune with itself. . . Long live art, long live friendship, long live the joy of life!
It is still more likely that a woman's power would be seen as aggression, and a man's power would be seen as assertion.
As a buying group, visionaries are easy to sell but very hard to please. This is because they are buying a dream - which, to some degree, will alwasy be a dream.
I have a faithful joy and a joy that is lost. One is like a rose, the other, a thorn. The one that was stolen I have not lost.
Sometime I think; and sometime I am.
Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly on the move, but the spirit of humanity seems almost unmoved.