I love children. I'd prefer to be around children much more than adults, actually. And I like animals, too. I'm just really into beings who are at ea….

Any ideas of “other” are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of “normal.”.

My legacy is in my family, not in my work. For me. I don't know about for other people. I try to forget a lot..

Your government has problems...my government has problems. I can't be a judge. All I can do is be an ambassador of love. I'm a musician, not a soldie….

I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails..

Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for..

I'm becoming more and more apolitical - I think the most revolutionary thing you can do is just live your life and have a good time. Before they scoo….

God looks out for fools and babies..

We're all just bags of bones and muscle and hormones; I'll never understand what makes our minds do the things we do. It's like that statue of the mo….

Music is like a lover that I can't commit to, but I seem to always find myself in bed with..

I am here no longer just a vision birthed into this body I accept my praise, my blame, my joy, my sorrow I realize we are, in truth, the truth we see….

My favorite period is when we lived in the land of the three-minute song. The Motown thing - I thought they were genius in knowing that's as much as ….

It's very limiting to us as a species, the concept of better-than/less-than. It just seems to be at its end. I'm like, this all fades to black, and i….

I tried to be as positive as possible, because I have the same birthday as Michael Jackson. He is my cosmic brother. I love him..

Music is my only guide. I don't care if people pigeonhole me. Miles Davis is my hero. He covered Cindy Lauper and Michael Jackson, and he didn't give….

Looking at the media today, I'm quite ashamed of myself, of things I've participated in. Everything is marketed to sex and gossip and it's just a sha….

I find myself wanting to make music at the dining room table or in the bedroom - I'm kind of a mobile writer, so I sort of move around the house. But….

Not to be a Bible-thumper, but there really is nothing new under the sun..

My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around me all the time. The first record that really caug….

Her beauty cannot be measured with standards of a colonized mind.

It's hard being bisexual, omnisexual, multisexual, whatever you want to call it, when people have their agenda and expect you to just represent their….