I didn't confess how wrecked I was. Let them keep thinking I was Superwoman if they wanted. I knew the truth.

I'm a person of the mountains and the open paddocks and the big empty sky, that's me, and I knew if I spent too long away from all that I'd die; I don't know what of, I just knew I'd die.

We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.

The only true test of friendship is the time your friend spends on you.

My survival was up to me. I had nothing and I had no one. What I did have, I told myself, was my mind, my imagination, my memory, my feelings, my spirit. These were important and powerful things.

All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.

I live in the light, But carry my dark with me.

The Bible just said ‘Thou shalt not kill’, then told hundreds of stories of people killing each other and becoming heroes, like David with Goliath.

There are some things that once you've lost, you never get back. Innocence is one. Love is another. I guess childhood is a third.

At that age you think boys have as much personality as coat hangers and, you don't notice their looks. Then you grow up.

What's the Future? It's a blank sheet of paper, and we draw lines on it, but sometimes our hand is held, and the lines we draw aren't the lines we wanted.

History repeats, but science reverberates.

I heart my job. I get to make things up for a living.

I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid's knee.

All they teach you in drama school is how to do stage fights and be a pain in rehearsals.

We transform our relationships when we listen with our ears, hearts, and souls.

Also, of course, I need my Dove soap. Of course I need my cocoa butter. I need my Listerine. I need the white Jockey tees. They are really soft and comfortable.

Of all blessings, no gift equals the gentle, trusting love and companionship of a good woman.

After my first No. 1 song back in 2006, I worried I may never have another one.

I can't remember my telephone number, but I know it was in the high numbers.

As if it didnt matter what was on, but instead how hard i was listening.