There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.

I am finding that vulnerability gives me great strength, because you're not hiding anymore. It's really about being a pioneer for myself, going into the places where I am not being taught. I have to teach myself.

Haze all clouding up in my mind in the daze of the why it could've never been.

There is an energy that you carry when you're nurturing another life where you're protecting first - and once you know that cub is out of the way of the hunter's gun, you can be a little more daring.

Muhammad, my friend, I'm getting very scared. Teach me how to love my brothers who don't know the law, and what about the deal on the flying trapeze?

The music is the magic carpet that other things take naps on.

Our world is a huge mess right now, and not big enough for masses of intolerant people.