These precious things, let them bleed.

To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.

For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun.

If you are a nurturing mother, and a good one, you can go to play groups, sit on the floor and play all the games, and have tea with the other mothers, but wouldn't you like to think that's not all there is? That you haven't hung up your high heels without knowing how to walk in them?

Operation Peter Pan spanned from 1960-62 whereby over 14,000 children were sent away from their families in Cuba, some never to reunite again. Pan Am flights took the children to Miami FL, 'Never-Never Land', and the children became known as the 'Peter Pans.' I wrote this song for my daughter, and it is sung for all the daughters and mothers, fathers and brothers who felt this pain of separation all because of governments and their politics.

Inspiration quite frequently arrives as a surprise. The key is being open to it.

I really respect anybody who stands by their truth.