I turned my pain into art and my hard work into a career. Helping myself has helped others. helping others has helped me.

Promiscuity does not scare me as long as she is savvy and self possessed when puberty comes to call. My aim is to simply raise my daughter to be secure in her self worth and capable of happiness all on her own.

One of my rules is: Never TRY to do anything. Just do it.

If you don't live what you sing about, your mirror is gonna fade.

But in the garden of simple, where all of us are nameless, you were never anything but beautiful to me.

My country tis of thee, to take swings at each other on talk show TV.

Life is a B Movie: it's stupid and it's strange, it's a directionless story, the dialogue is lame, but in the 'he said she said' sometimes there's some poetry, if you turn your back long enough and let it happen naturally.