I think the question that nobody wanted to deal with is the question they're posing: did my kid die in vain? Because the answer is too awful.

There's very little I can sing now. When I asked my first voice teacher, who was the best one, "When will I know when to stop singing?" he said, "Your voice will tell you." And it is very, very difficult to sing now.

I have heard more than once, 'Shut up and sing!' and I get it now.

I'm lucky to have met so many people who have been involved in peace and who have been peace prize winners.

Only you and I can help the sun rise each coming morning. If we don't, it may drench itself out in sorrow. You special, miraculous, unrepeatable, fragile, fearful, tender, lost, sparkling ruby emerald jewel, rainbow splendor person. It's up to you.

Put tattoos all up and down our thighs, do anything our parents would despise. Take uppers, downers, blues, and reds and yellows, our brains are turning into jello.

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.