You are beautiful. Don't ever think you are not. It may be such a compliment that does not come from a man too often. They are shy, proud, and rude. Give yourself some love. And walk as what you are - a beautiful woman. All your life.

Don't ever give up on life. Life can be so beautiful, especially after you've spent a lot of time with it.

I'm a politician. Politics is just a convenience for our life and we just have to create a beautiful world together that would be very convenient for us and just enjoyable.

I often wish my mother had died so that at least I could get some people's sympathy. But there she was, a perfectly beautiful mother.

You're out of the shot, ... Do you mind playing a little nearer to the camera?

When you burn the chair, you suddenly realize that the chair in your mind did not burn or disappear

Unclog your mind. Unclog your room. Arrange your room in a way you wish your mind would be.

you don't need talent to be an artist. 'Artist' is just a frame of mind. Anybody can be an artist, anybody can communicate if they are desperate enough.

I have to be pretty inclusive. I have to be pretty much inside of me rather than going out and finding out what people are doing. I don't have the time to. I just listen to my mind, in a way.

Be kind once a day - even if it's just in your mind.

You may think I’m small, but I have a universe inside my mind.

If someone is unpleasant to you, draw a halo around his or her head in your mind. He/she is an angel who came to teach you something.

If everybody thinks of something, then it will happen. Your mind is part of the universe. It is connected, you can use its energy.

People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.

When I'm putting some communication out on Twitter or Facebook or Instagram, I think that it's helping me, my brain, you know, because it's always somehow stimulated by people who are sending things to me. And it works both ways. It's great. My brain is very happy about it.

You know harmony only exists in music-isn't that amazing? I think that if you see earth from very far away, the color is blue. That is very interesting because blue is the color of communication.

I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.

We mustn't be traditional in the way we communicate with people - especially with the Establishment. We should surprise people by saying new things in an entirely new way. Communication of that sort can have a fantastic power so long as you don't do only what they expect you to do.

We don't read people's wishes. The wishes are suppose to be direct communication to the Universe. Your interception will weaken the power of the wish.

In the present age when communication is so rapid, we should create a different tradition, traditions are created everyday. Five years now is like 100 years before. We are living in a society that has no history. There's no precedent for this kind of society so we can break the old patterns.

I have the outsider's vision, which is creating wisdom I can share with the world. The fact that I am misunderstood has always given me an added impetus to work on communication to bridge the gap.

In a way the new music showed things could be transformed by new channels of communication.

Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.

I always believed that my work should be unfinished in the sense that I encourage people to add their creativity to it, either conceptually or physically. Back in the 1960s, I was calling for 'Unfinished Music,' number one, and number two, with my artwork - I was taking unfinished work into the gallery. And that's how I was looking at it.

Creativity is innate and it manifests itself in so many forms. It needs to come out somehow or it destroys you in some way.

I think people place limitations on each other and on ourselves. There is a great fear of expressing ourselves, of making creativity happen.

It's better to dance than to march through life.

I really feel that artists or musicians are controversial people. Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. If people are not doing that, they're not artists - they're artisans.

My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.

You should do something that will make your heart dance once a day. If you can't do that because you're too depressed, then do something that will make somebody else's heart dance.

I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.

When you are feeling bad, do one thing a day to make your heart dance. It could be a simple thing like looking up at the sky.

Walking on thin ice, I'm paying the price. I'm throwing the dice in the air. Why must we learn it the hard way, and play the game of life with your heart?

Remember love. Remember our hearts are one. Even when we are fighting with each other, our hearts are beating in unison. I love you.

Losing my daughter was a very serious pain. There was always some empty space in my heart.

Even my mother told me: 'You are a handsome woman, but you're not pretty. Pretty girls don't have those big bones.'

When I was 4 years old my mother put me into an early music education school. That's where they taught you perfect pitch and harmony and how to write music and all that. At that time, one of the homeworks was to listen to all the sounds and the noise of a day and transfer that into musical notes.

Mothers are not supposed to give guidance.

When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.

Sometimes the father feels pushed out because of the connection between the mother and the child.

Tape the sound of the moon fading at dawn. Give it to your mother to listen to when she's in sorrow.

I often wish my mother had died so that at least I could get some people's sympathy. But there she was, a perfectly beautiful mother.

In the '60s we fought for peace, when the Vietnam war was on. We were against the cops and against the politicians, and there was a lot of waving banners and all that. And I think in a way, just as they were enjoying that machoism of war, we were enjoying the machismo of being anti-war, you know?

When you go to war, both sides lose totally.

In the Second World War, I was a little girl. I was evacuated in my country.

If people want to make war they should make a color war, and paint each others’ cities up in the night in pinks and greens.

Some people are saying there's going to be a third World War. I hope not. I really think this is a time that people can start to mend things by negotiations, dealings. We know about dealings, don't we? We have brilliant lawyers. Why don't we have brilliant lawyers standing up and working for peace?

The war industry people are very together; they know exactly what they want; they don't even have to talk to each other. The peace industry people are just intellectuals who are very critical of each other... Unless the peace industry is powerful, we're always going to have war. It is as simple as that.

People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop.