Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.

I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.

I'm like every other woman: a closet full of clothes, but nothing to wear: So I wear jeans.

I grew up with a lot of boys. I probably have a lot of testosterone for a woman.

I want to be a big, fleshy voluptuous woman with curves. I want a big bum, but I don't have one.

I'm living my life as a journey. My quest is to make it better every year.

Beauty [is] a kind of radiance. People who possess a true inner beauty, their eyes are a little brighter, their skin a little more dewy. They vibrate at a different frequency.

You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.

When I go out, I love steak and caviar.

I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.

I hate committing myself to anything. It's probably the lack of discipline, honestly. I'm probably a spoiled brat worried about getting my way every time.

Becoming a parent has just completely changed me, and made life so beautiful and given me such a center and a focus and such joy.

I work on one page, revising and polishing until I can't make it better, then move on to the next. Some pages might get 20 or more drafts before I move on.

Never think of your car as a cold machine, but as a hot-blooded horse.

Our strength comes from that magic, from the earth and the sky, from the fire and the water. Fly high, swim deep, give back to the earth what she gives you.

Where are the beginnings, the endings, and most important, the middles?

You can answer your own question. You already know the answer, if you can just gain access to it.

Today's business model is bad for people, bad for the economy and bad for stability and democracy.

I rarely hit home runs in batting practice, and usually when I do feel that good, I'll have a bad game.

I don't how many of us get to go to the next level, and I don't know how many people on my level get to go to the next level after that. I think it is the songs that can take you there.

A lot of my music is more about the possibilities of acknowledging something, rather than giving you an answer.