I had this weird, nomadic little tent with a rug over it, like a booth where I'd sing the vocals.

When a child is born into this world it has no concept of the tone the skin is living in.

My kids love Ibiza and we feel committed to it because we keep coming back to the same area. People recognise us in shops now and we have a social life here. We cook at home and have friends around.

I have absorbed my life now. I am ready for my music to unfold. I know time flies, but before the end of this year, the album will be out. Even if it kills me.

I've always looked to other women for inspiration and kicks. When a woman stands up and does her thing, it never ceases to excite and inspire me.

Who needs a handbag? I put my money in my bra.

When I found out I was pregnant, my mother said, 'Dont separate your life, the life that youre going to make with this child, from the things that you are and what you want to do.'

There's been a lot of coming home in the early mornings after funny nights out, having bizarre sandwiches in bed.

Being a grandmother is one of the least strange things in my life. It makes more sense than a lot of things... like photo shoots!

To save my child, I'd rather go hungry. I got all of Ethiopia inside of me.

The soul that acquires the virtue of forgiveness won't find any more trouble. No matter what happens, he will know how to run his life.

Princes have big ears which hear far and near.

I have pretty thick skin. I've been in the arena a long time, and that means that I am not going to get down with [Donald Trump] and go insult for insult.

I'm in the woods with Dr. Doolittle.

It may be said that an education which does not succeed in making poetry a resource in the business of life as well as in its leisure, has something the matter with it.

In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery

I have been criticized and ridiculed for turning to astrology, but after a while, I reached the point where I didn't care.

As for jokes, I don't think it's necessarily that what I write is funny.

Finding another way to do what I know I can do pretty well. A way that stimulates me. I'm always on some sort of learning curve. If I can continually be surprised then I'm alert.

A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.