I am an advocate of honesty and openness, and I think deceit is a dangerous seed to plant and let grow in relationships.

Acceptance is a small quiet room.

Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true.

Believe in the integrity and value of the jagged path. We don't always do the right thing on our way to rightness.

I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And, most surprising of all, that I could carry it.

What if what made me do all those things everyone thought I shouldn't have done was what also had got me here? What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was?

Because when an artist has to assert that her intended audience is all humans rather than those who happen to be of her particular gender or race, what she’s actually having to assert is the breadth and depth of her own humanity.