I don't know if it's a sign of all the chaos that is happening out there or not, but I've lately craved the structure and order of classical music, the balance and symmetry.

Hindsight is wonderful. It's always very easy to second guess after the fact.

I wanted control over the merchandising, the actual packaging of the product. That was a big factor. The only way for me to exercise control on all those levels was to start my own label.

Sometimes it seems like you and me against the world.

I am strong, I am invincible, I am woman.

If I have to, I can do anything.

I did my own music videos, my own TV commercials.

I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend.

A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists.

Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time.

I always believed that I could make it or I would never have spent so many years trying to get here.

Who really owns the Earth?Corporations? Governments?Charity Organizations?Or...Should it be the people?You decide!

A calm soul is a heavenly being.

Alma didn’t want Isabel to start singing the praises of their pet, a rescue beagle, or she wouldn’t shush until sundown. “I’ve found the missing lady, ” Alma said. “Say welcome home, Betsy Sweet.

Know what [drug] you're using, decide just why you're using it, and you can have a rich experience.

The Book of Psalms instructs us in the use of wings as well as words. It sets us both mounting and singing.

All I want is a modest place in Mr X's Good Reading, Miss Y's Good Writing, and that new edition of One Thousand Best Bits of Recent Prose.

How many more people have to die or be afraid or be injured in Chelsea, New York, Erin, for us to wake up?

You're insane!" "I won't argue that point.

Find somebody else to run your business on a day-to-day basis.

An awful lot of storytelling isn't really about making people understand - it's about making people care.