Do you know where you going to? Do you like the things that life is showing you? Where are you going to? Do you know?

You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.

Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

I really, deeply believe that dreams do come true. Often, they might not come when you want them. They come in their own time.

Take a little time out of your busy day to give encouragement to someone who's lost their way.

Most people are so hard to please that if they met God, they'd probably say yes, she's great, but.

You know, you do need mentors, but in the end, you really just need to believe in yourself.

It takes a long time to get to be a diva. I mean, you gotta work at it.

My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunities.

I can be a better me than anyone can.

If I have someone who believes in me, I can move mountains.

Be my shield, baby. Be my world

For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten.

I did pull out my old Telecaster, and have been thinking I'd like to play that loud with a drummer. But I haven't actually done that yet.

I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again.

Tell me where are the flashbacks they all warned us would come?

Some forms of truth are really forms of social power and oppression.

People do horrible things when they're young. There might be betrayal and there might be things that should be forgotten.

Kierkegaard was once asked, 'What is a poet?' He answered that a poet was an unhappy man whose moans and cries of anguish were transformed into ravishing music.

I just have to keep working hard.

There is no fortune so good that you can find nothing in it to complain of.