"Life is the flower for which love is the honey."

"Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come."

"To dream is to realize that courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."

"The only limit to human potential is a single spark of imagination can ignite the world."

"I'm noticing a new approach to art making in recent museum and gallery shows. It flickered into focus at the New Museum's 'Younger Than Jesus' last year and ran through the Whitney Biennial, and I'm seeing it blossom and bear fruit at 'Greater New York,' MoMA P.S. 1's twice-a-decade extravaganza of emerging local talent."

"Wisdom is the quiet art of recognizing what can be changed and releasing what cannot. Such is the immutable nature of understanding."

"I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things."

"I'm kind of a good girl - and I'm not. I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease. I know that I have sex appeal in my deck of cards. But I like to get people thinking. That's what the stories in my music do."