A lot of the touring stuff has become a drag. Traveling itself is a drag. Anyone who's been to an airport knows that.

My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am.

You got nothing to lose. You don't lose when you lose fake friends.

Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t do something. Make your own victories. Make your own mistakes.

Girls have got balls. They're just a little higher up, that's all.

Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want to do. Sometimes people call that rebellion, especially when you're a woman.

I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do.

You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don't, if you walk out onstage complacent, that's not a good thing.

I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules.

Success isn't one straight line - it's a ladder, and there's always another rung above you to reach out for. Like anything else, there are ups and downs.

I don't give a damn about my reputation. You're living in the past, it's a new generation.

It is easy to live with someone of value than someone famous.

it’s being branded a failure that causes the most pain

Adopt the pace of nature her secret is patience.

See, food I can talk about. I'm Italian, I know the food.

I'm concerned about getting Iraq on its feet.

Everyone goes through their stuff when they are growing up. It's all relative. Everyone has the same situations on their menu. We just make the choices in terms of what situations we're going to eat.

The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.

The Devil fears the word of God, He can't bite it; it breaks his teeth.

When you make a film, you like to run it with an audience. They tell you you're narrow-minded or subjective, or that seems too long, or that doesn't work.

The public be damned! (on whether the public should be consulted about luxury trains Aug 1918