My voice is my instrument. ... It is not in the throat, from where it appears to come. It is in my feet and how they touch the floor, in my legs and how they lift and sink with the rhythm of the song. It is in my hips and belly and lower back.

We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under.

All my life I have gone out on a limb, but I have turned the limb into a bridge, and there is cool, clear water flowing under.

I am selfish. I reach for the world I want to live in. And I believe in leaving our best we can do to our children

To be always in a state of wonder is a kind of sensitivity that can sometimes be an extraordinary blessing and sometimes a real pain.

You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it.

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.