I want to incite people to loosen their oppression by giving them something to work with, to build on. They shouldn't be frightened of creating themselves - that's why I make things very open, with things for people to do.

We’ve been filled with great treasure for one purpose: to be spilled.

I have to be pretty inclusive. I have to be pretty much inside of me rather than going out and finding out what people are doing. I don't have the time to. I just listen to my mind, in a way.

People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.

Music is like my security blanket. The first medium that I learned was music.

I wonder why men get serious at all. They have this delicate, long thing hanging outside their bodies which goes up and down by its own will. If I were a man I would always be laughing at myself.

I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.