I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.

You don't love me. If you really knew me, you wouldn't love me. You love who you think I am. And don't pretend that you know me. Because I don't even know myself.

I know I was born and I know that I'll die... The in between is mine. I Am Mine

It's saying, just stop, and be together. Don't talk now, just breathe and feel each other's presence.

Music's at its best when it has a purpose.

I knew all the rules but the rules did not know me.

The smallest oceans still make big big waves.

Music saved me; I mean, my upbringing was like a hurricane, and music was the tree I held onto.

It's a mystery to me; We have a greed, with which we have agreed. You think you have to want more than you need. Until you have it all, you won't be free.

The love received is the love that is saved.

I've got my indignation but I'm pure in all my thoughts.

He believed with all his heart that we should spend our lives in happiness and service, in joy and work, in kindness and in love, and he lived... and died... what he believed.

Modelling is a silly, crazy business.

I think life is sacred, whether it's abortion or the death penalty.

If it's meant to be, they'll find a way to make it work eventually.

It is easier to apologize than to get permission.

I mean, evil and boredom. Evil and ennui. Evil and the lack of stimulation. Evil and sluggish blood.

I don't want to open my mouth or speak anymore, because everything I say becomes scandalous. It wears you out.

I remember mother saying : Inventors are like poets, a trashy lot

The art of research [is] the art of making difficult problems soluble by devising means of getting at them.

I've led three lives: the acting part, wife and mother - which is a career - and international relations. I'm proud of my career, the first one, and I'm proud of the other two, too.