I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!

The idea of my life as a fairy tale is itself a fairy tale.

I avoid looking back. I prefer good memories to regrets.

I am basically a feminist. I think that women can do anything they decide to do.

I love walking in the woods, on the trails, along the beaches. I love being part of nature. I love walking alone. It is therapy. One needs to be alone, to recharge one's batteries.

I never say 'never,' and I never say 'always.'

A person has to keep something to herself or you're life is just a layout in a magazine.

I've had happy moments in my life, but I don't think that happiness-- being happy-- is a perpetual state that anyone can be in. Life isn't that way.

Mr. Hitchcock taught me everything about cinema. It was thanks to him that I understood that murder scenes should be shot like love scenes and love scenes like murder scenes.

The pearl is the queen of gems and the gem of queens.

When I married Prince Rainier, I married the man and not what he represented or what he was. I fell in love with him without giving a thought to anything else.

Those who can’t teach, pass laws about how to evaluate teachers.

I don't know why it should be, I am sure; but the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, maddens me.

Even in China. Children there, next to the Great Wall, who had never seen Mickey Mouse responded. So the studio did have that skill to communicate with images.

We're the weirdest monkeys ever.

Obviously, the hit singles get the biggest reaction - that's when you can see people really getting excited.

I'm not videotaping my life, but in a way I am trying to put certain things about myself on canvas.

I have a tree man coming to trim the jacaranda in my front garden.

My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize.

A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.

One monkey don't stop no show. Not one, not six. The struggle continues.