It's Strange, But When It Comes Right Down To It I Never Do Fall Apart--even When I'm Sure I Will.
I Knew That I Wanted To Start My Own Business. I Knew That I Wanted To Work For Myself. I Was No Stranger To The Word No. You Just Have To Keep Going.
I Don't Always Know How To Communicate. I Think I Get A Bit Unfiltered And A Bit Strange To People.
Sometimes If I'm Not Playing Well On Stage, I'll Purposely Play Even Worse; I'll Tear It Apart, Because I'm So Disgusted With What I'm Playing That I'll Go The Wrong Route: Instead Of Trying To Make It Better, I'll Go The Other Way And Really Make Myself Sound Bad. Which Is A Kind Of A Strange Outlook I Suppose, Really.
I've Never Done An Album Like This. With Biophilia, I Was Being Like Kofi Annan - I Had To Be The Pacifist To Try To Unite The Impossible. Maybe That Was A Strange, Personal Job Between Me And Myself, To Show How Overreaching I Was Being As A Woman. The Only Way I Could Express That Was By Comparing It To The Universe.
I Caught A Tremendous Fish And Held Him Beside The Boat Half Out Of Water, With My Hook Fast In A Corner Of His Mouth. He Didn't Fight. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I Stared And Stared And Victory Filled Up The Little Rented Boat From The Pool Of Bilge Where Oil Had Spread A Rainbow Around The Rusted Engine To The Bailer Rusted Orange, The Sun-cracked Thwarts The Oarlocks On Their Strings, The Gunnels-until Everything Was Rainbow, Rainbow, Rainbow! And I Let The Fish Go.
The Image Of Ourselves In The Minds Of Others Is The Picture Of A Stranger We Shall Never See.
The Orange Revolution In Ukraine Is A Good Example Of How People, Who Are Robbed Of Their Right To Vote, Can Protest And Put An End To Dictatorship.
As Long As We Insist On Relating To It Strictly On Our Own Terms-as Strange To Us Or Subject To Us-the Wilderness Is Alien, Threatening, Fearful.
In Deference To Such Spectacular Carnage It Is Perhaps Perverse To Dwell Upon One Person's Death, But We Are Creatures So Constituted That The Passing Of One Friend Or One Acquaintance Has A Profounder Effect That That Of 100,000 Strangers. If There Is Any Metaphorical Truth In The Jewish Proverb That He Who Saves One Life Saves The Whole World, Then There Is Equal Metaphorical Truth In The Proposition That When One Person Dies, The Whole World Dies With Them.