There are some things we do simply because the doing is a success.

A lot is yet to be enjoyed. I'd like to stomp grapes for wine. Go to Antarctica. Have dinner with Venus Williams who is the greatest tennis player ever.

I love you because no two snowflakes are alike, and it is possible, if you stand tippy-toe, to walk between the raindrops.

I used to go up to her house. She lived upstate [in New York] and I lived in Manhattan; you're living in a lot of noise and my career was being built. For me to spend time with Nina [Simone] is to spend a lot of quiet time.

Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.

Violence is like money in the bank; it's only helpful if you don't have to use it.

Schools should serve breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack. No sugared drinks, no fast type food.