I want people to understand me as a person with views, not just performing songs.

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

I've had my share of dark days of the soul. I try not to focus on it too much so it doesn't get to me.

The contrast of the world that we live in and the world that is here in Aspen and the world inhabited by women who have no resources, little or no, very few resources - huge disparity.

Everything is illusory. You cannot label something and feel that that is the beginning, middle, and end of it.

I guess what I'm passionate about is, I see so many things that I find that there's no real solution to, and you're only here for such a brief moment in time, even if you live to be a hundred years old. Yet, what happens within that time frame? So many things happen.

I find beauty in a very independent state. It lives quietly. It's there to be discovered.