"Everyone knows the power of a song and it takes you back to that place. Just that power of words can heal."

“It's also important for those who promote those issues within the white community - the somewhat privileged community - to talk about issues affecting people of color”

“If you didn’t make mistakes you wouldn't get far.”

“After the United States gobbled up California and half of Mexico, and we were stripped down to nothing, territorial expansion suddenly becomes a crime. It's been going on for centuries, and it will still go on.”

Source : At lunch during the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal, December 11, 1945. "Nuremberg Diary" by Gustave Gilbert, p. 66, 1947.

“Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.”

“I'm interested in gay characters - not trying to sensationalize gay characters, just [representing] who are in my personal life. I'm interested in exploring my world and my friends, and a lot of them happen to be gay.”

Source : "‘Addicted to Fresno’ Director Jamie Babbit on Hiding Pregnancies and Embracing Diversity". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. October 1, 2015.

“I called the album 'The Chemo' because it seems like the industry and music overall is dying slowly.”

“We all, as human beings, have different layers, and if we become one-dimensional or really superficial, then I still think there are things that happened that got us to that place.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.”