A good jockey doesn't need orders and a bad jockey couldn't carry them out anyway; so it's best not to give them any.

Everyone keeps asking me: 'Are you going to win?' How on earth do you know if you're going to win or not?

On a horse that consistently hung left-The best thing you can do is put a bit of lead in his right ear, to act as a counterbalance ... with a shotgun.

When I won the Derby on Never Say Die I went home and cut the lawn. I haven't cut the lawn since.

Eating's going to be a whole new ball game. I may even have to buy a new pair of trousers.

After winning the Derby aged just 18-Why all the fuss? After all, the Derby is just another race.

The burn is my girlfriend, failure is my ex. I'm married to the track and engaged to success.

They’d seen his deepest secrets. They knew who he was, what he was. But they didn’t seem to care. No … they cared more. They weren’t judging him. They were concerned.

Life is not always what one wants it to be but to make the best of it as it is is the only way of being happy.

My family was very encouraging, and both of my grandparents were both beautiful singers. My grandmother was a coloratura soprano, and my grandfather was an Irish tenor in a barbershop quartet.

I've kept a diary since I was 11.

Too much apology doubles the offense.

As women, I think it helps that we are complex creatures by nature so just being a woman helps to understand a woman's journey.

Expressing my feelings and then the opportunity to share it with others is just such a gift.

My music has to do with beauty, and it's intended to, if not lift the spirits, then be a kind of a balm to the spirits.

I've always felt alone and isolated, and living on the West Coast, there's no poetry community out here, and if there is, it's really spread out - because it's LA, it's spread out.