I'm a great believer in karma and the vengeance that it serves up to those who are deliberately mean is generally enough for me.

It's funny how something so normal and mundane that you see every day-your body-can be controversial. The shock value is intense. It's like carrying an art piece around with you all the time.

Even if you're only wearing trainers and a vest, eyeliner will instantly transform you. People always look put-together when their make-up's on and their eyes are popping - just ask Amy Winehouse!

Even talking, I'm super-loud. I could never have that kind of meek, little wispy whimsical lavender and lace voice. It comes from my body. There's no way I can fight it.

All this fashion stuff - who's cool now - is just a bigger version of the cool kids versus the nerds.

I'm passionate about color. My best friend and I sit and look at Pantone books for fun.

I'm not sure that I am able to feel embarrassment.

I've belched a lot more since I had gall bladder surgery. I don't know why.

I'm naturally a mousy blonde, so I dye my hair, and my eyebrows would disappear if I didn't get through at least a pencil a month.

I'm shameless, and I love a pun. There's a lot of Beth puns.

'Get a Job' is about all the rich kids we knew when we were younger, kids who never had jobs but always had money for partying or getting their hair done.

It's not true that we lose our creative genius when we grow older, but we grow older because we forget to use our creative genius.

All over the world God is opening doors of opportunity, making it possible for us to take the Gospel to millions who have never heard of Christ.

Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure.

Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music.

No time for better words, no time to unsay anything. -Til We Have Faces

Claude Debussy was a rare phenomenon a composer profoundly and subversively revolutionary.

I said I would never go to a psychiatrist, and I spent much of my life in psychoanalysis.

Along with bathing and eating your veggies, releasing emotions needs to become part of our daily routines.

I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.

I've stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance.