Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.
The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.
I live in a world of possibility and opportunity. You look for the light. There's darkness everywhere but you look for that spot of light and you work your way towards it, and you do what it takes to get there.
I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.
I think that you can only be true to yourself. Nobody can live up to other people's expectations. You will always let them down. There will always be something they won't like about you.
This is the book I never read ~ These are the words I never said ~ This is the path I'll never tread ~ These are the dreams I'll dream instead
You know, I would say that songwriting is something about the expression of the heart, the intellect and the soul.
There was a time when I looked to other people for recognition, because I didn't have enough confidence to trust my own judgment. Now I'm not looking for reassurance, because I realize how fickle people are. My own strength is the best I can have.
When I was younger I wish I'd known that what often seemed to be the 'end of the world' often turned out to be a positive and transformative experience!
In a way, it's all down to perception, isn't it? And everyone has their own take on everything.
Each individual is as individual as their fingerprints, and I think that's extraordinary.
You have to face things, have faith in what you do and go for it. Think, 'What's the worst that could happen?'
The world is a heartbreaking place, without any question.
To be human is to have a whole spectrum of these experiences that arise within us.
As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.
Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion - very powerful emotions. That's what draws millions of people towards it. And, um, I found myself always going for these darker places and - people identify with that.
I get very frustrated when I hear women saying, "Oh, feminism is passé," because I think feminism means empowerment. Men can be feminists, too! Many men are feminists. We need feminism. It's not against men; it's about the empowerment of women. It's the respect of women - giving women equal rights, the same opportunities.
You just decide what your values are in life and what you are going to do, and then you feel like you count, and that makes life worth living. It makes my life meaningful.
I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory.
Green is a label for a certain attitude to life, a certain kind of respect that one might have for the very source of things that we take for granted.
I have always felt a little homeless. It's a strange thing.
You become really ugly when you become very superficial and self-obsessed.
Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.
I identify with other women because of my gender, and I identify with other women if they are mothers because I'm a mother, too. It's very simple. It's nothing complicated, it's not rocket science. It's about empathy. It's about understanding that what happens with one person is potentially what happens to you, and seeing yourself in someone else's shoes. Fundamentally, we are all in the same place: we're born, we live, and we're going to die. In between, we'll have joy and we'll have sadness.
I'm a female but I have a masculine side and I'm not going to negate that part of myself.
