Mask your brightness. Be at one with the dust of the earth. This is primal union.
I think some of that hopelessness of my generation got passed on to later generations - the sense of uselessness.
We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.
That's what artists do, that's what poets do - we all do it. We start with something, and sometimes we destroy everything that we've made in order to get to the core place where we started from.
My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, to give them my energy and accept theirs. We're all in it together, and I respond emotionally as a worker, a mother, an artist, and a human being with a voice. We all have a voice. We have the responsibility to exercise it, to use it.
I daydream a lot - that's how I get my ideas. If I'm sitting in a café, I'm not on my phone because I want to hear my mind. I think that those periods of small solitude that we are really losing are so important.
Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.
Sometimes it is hard not to say, 'God forgive God. ' Sometimes it is hard to say so much. But if our faith is true, He didn't. He crucified Him.
This world and life of ours are filled with inequalities. The worst possible use to make of this fact, however, is to allow resentments to possess us. All of us have imagined limitations, but we have also the privilege of pushing them aside, and spreading our lives out! We never know any of our limitations until we put ourselves to the test. There are always "growing pains" working within us.
People have wanted to look inside the human mind, the human brain, for thousands of years.
I'm a huge Woody Allen fan. Good movie, bad movie, it doesn't matter - I just like his movies.