I must be allowed to be as I am.

My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.

There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me.

There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection.

I'm a country bumpkin. I'm not a showgirl.

I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.

The press has always written that I am a recluse and a mysterious woman, but I am more down-to-earth than they think.

I have one pug and one Czechoslovakian dog called Prazsky krysarik.

I just want to live in peace and quiet.

When I record, it feels like I'm in a bubble. There's nothing else in my head right then. It's just that song, and I'm trying to really sound like what the song is about.

It's strange that the newspapers don't see a connection between their false revelations about my private life and my need for seclusion and security.

Don't judge people by what others tell you

I didn't know how to tell him that I hadn't lost the instinct to survive and yet at the same time I didn't feel much need for self-preservation, that somehow there was a distinction between the two.

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I mean, there's chemistry in life and there's acting chemistry. I'm not saying they're the same thing, but they're as mysterious.

I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.

Although their parents died in the wilderness for their stubbornness, Israel could profit from the older generation's failure by remembering that God had used adversity to train them.

He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.

This is politics. People in power never have to play by the same rules.

It has taken four billion years of evolution to generate this kind of organism with this kind of brain, and yet we wake up in the morning and feel bored.

Technological measures are important, but equally important is... a consciousness of the commonality of all living beings and an emphasis on shared responsibility.