There has never been a time when I was not committed to, involved in, or caring of, the social and political issues of my world.

I like so many different kinds of music that I've never allowed myself the limitations of one particular range.

I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell.

I am grateful that my horizons were not narrowed at the outset.

A person has the right, and I think the responsibility, to develop all of their talents.

If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something different, to find out what people are going to think about it, you're going to limit yourself. That's a very strange way to live.

I am deeply spiritual; I revel in those things that make for good - the things that we can do to shed a little light, to help place an oft-dissonant universe back in tune with itself... Long live art, long live friendship, long live the joy of life!