I think secretly I've realized after my time on the planet that I have no control over what people feel about me or need from me, so I just have a mo….

Once you encounter people who are really testing the limits of kindness, that's when you start to build up a shield and close yourself down..

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..

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….

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….

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….

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….

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

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

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….

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

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 ….

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….

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

God looks out for fools and babies..

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

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….

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….

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….

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

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….