I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.

We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.

Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart.

When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.

Chase away the demons, and they will take the angels with them.

We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

Freedom to me is a luxury of being able to follow the path of the heart, to keep the magic in your life. Freedom is necessary for me in order to create, and if I cannot create I don’t feel alive.

Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it.

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.

Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.

All my battles were with male egos. I’m just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision.

No soul has the power to redeem. You can only tell others about the Redeemer.

The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves.

A friend is someone who will always be there for you, in good and hard times.

All right, " she said. "Give me the books that are kind to me, and to hell with the men who don't give a damn about me.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.

I think first of all you have to be there for the right reason.

People who climb from one rung of society to another can never do anything simply.

Oaths are the counterfeit money with which we pay the sacrifice of love.

Michael Caine is a movie star, but he's also a great actor. I can't say that about every movie star. It's the concentration he has.