Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength - in search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.

I think I'm led by spirit. I think I'm led by a sense of what is right and what feels good to me - what I accept, what is joyful, what is positive. I see my mission, in a way, as carrying that forward - not so much by preaching, but by embodiment.

Artists are messengers whose responsibility is to unite the world -- a faith that will lead not to destruction but to transformation.

In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence.

Not only will your teachers appear, but they will cook new foods for you.

God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it. And sometimes it just manifest itself even if you not looking, or don't know what you looking for. Trouble do it for most folks, I think. ... Yeah, It. God ain't a he or a she, but a It.