A lot of people come up to me expecting to meet the person they have seen perform. It's not going to happen, unless my mania, my stage person, responds to them and not the real me.

Knowing now what goes into making a successful artist, it's disheartening.

I'm gonna live like tomorrow doesn't exist.

I'm an advocate of 'it's not what you are, it's who you are.'

I've got thick skin and an elastic heart.

I liked when I was naive and I thought it was just about making good music.

I get to sit at home with the dogs on the sofa, record in a closet in the office, send them off and, if I'm lucky, make a million dollars.

I may cry ruining my make up, Wash away all things you've taken.. I don't care if I don't look pretty, Big girls cry when their hearts are breaking.

I don't want to be famous, or recognizable.

People aren't honest about the horrors of fame. The downsides are so overwhelming that, for me, there is no payoff.

I'm sensitive and get easily upset and insulted.

We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.

The difference between government and leadership is that leadership has a soul.

A good surgeon doesn't just concentrate on technical ability, but also on the appropriateness of what you're doing.

All I need is the power to be able to protect my comrades. So long as I can have the strength to do that, I don't care if I'm weaker than everyone in the world.

A glorious death is his, who for his country falls.

You never forget a beautiful thing that you have made. Even after you eat it, it stays with you - always.

All animals, including humans, have a right to lives of dignity and respect, without forced intrusions.

We try to do what's right, or rather what other say is right. But sometimes, when that goes against who we are...you have to choose.

But it's Sunday, Mr. Bell. Clocks are slow on Sundays.

We need wilderness preserved-as much of it as is still left, and as many kinds-because it was the challenge against which our character as a people was formed.