I'm a method actress in my songs, which is why it's hard to sing them.

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.

Forgive those who have made you suffer.

There's nothing more exciting than ideas.

I'm all about peace. I'm all about unity. I'm all about love.

Not badly, considering I was seated between Jesus Christ and Napoleon.

How can you have a director that doesn't go to work with the crew every day and talk to them?

Prettiness dies first.

Making a comeback is one of the most difficult things to do with dignity.

The eye is the notebook of the poet.

Osama Bin Laden was responsible for the deaths of thousands of people, including New Zealanders, in several different parts of the world.

In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics.