We humans are wired for empathy by evolution, but when children grow up in dominator families they internalize this male over female template for rel….

Girls are taught to sing high and pretty, like Antony, not low and from the guts like Nina Simone. But we're slowly trying to change that. There are ….

Get it right in your head - and you'll get it right in your life..

Growing up as a chubby kid with a ton of imaginary friends and a Cyndi Lauper obsession, I learned about rejection early on and was constantly trying….

As I got older, I got into all kinds of things in the streets - but for some reason, I never got caught up with the gangs growing up. Everybody dug m….

I certainly and deliberately introduced a great deal of variety into the people in the clamshell, which I suppose grows out of growing up in an indiv….

Often we will learn more from our failures than we do from our successes..

Love more and openly..

The less inhibited you are the better..

So many of the bands that influenced me growing up were English, even if I didn't realise it. English pop ruled the world in the '80s!.

A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at..

My lyrics come from my experiences growing up in life, trying to find out and express who I am. That’s basically it. I’m not trying to be a prophet o….

The blues is life itself..

Identify the thing that is going to stop you and then stop it..

I love to sing. It's the easiest thing for me to do..

I say, let's learn more and then speculate..

We cling to the idea that success is a simple function of individual merit and that the world in which we all grow up and the rules we choose to writ….

It's great to be back on terra cotta.

Business is business and politics is politics and never between shall meet..

I do believe that everyone growing up faces differential opportunities. With me, it was books and travel and some good teachers..

Everything was invented when somebody was alone..