I'm very much of the mindset that if you've made the record you wanted to make and there's nothing about it that you would change, then you should just be proud and happy with what you've done.

Obviously it's difficult not to compare one record success-wise, or sales-wise, or whatever, but I think you're always going to have moments - whatever record you've got - of insecurity.

Depeche Mode doesn't mean anything, nor does Eurythmics. Band names aren't supposed to mean anything. I wanted something that wasn't English, and you couldn't get more English than "Elly Jackson."

If you are still searching for that one person who will change your life, take a look in the mirror.

Life is about finding yourself in the magnificence of life.

If you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story - so I called myself the romantic lead.

No great city has ever been known for its abundant supply of parking.

To have people from every continent who are working on philanthropy, on social entrepreneurship, gives me a unique opportunity to engage.

[On her father's death:] I didn't know his leaving would hurt so much.

No one really knows me. People think they know me.