Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.

Tape the sound of the moon fading at dawn. Give it to your mother to listen to when she's in sorrow.

I don't particularly consider myself just an artist. I'm a woman - I'm a human being.

True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.

Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.

Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.

Peace is here now. It's just that we don't recognize it. Let's say that 98 percent of people in the world are wanting peace. Now people say, even people from Siberia? Yes. We want world peace. The two percent is really tying to mess it up. It's so sad in a way, because by messing it up what are they going to get? Their children are going to suffer, their grandchildren are going to suffer, and they might even die before something gets good.