I wasn't accepted because I didn't accept the drug culture that most of my peers were involved in. Now it's like a locked room.

I think most people are aware of the garbage in the tabloids and dont give them a lot of credence.

You keep lyin' when you ought to be truthin'.

You keep thinking that you'll never get burned, I just found me a brand new box of matches.

The Columbia years are the most sentimental for me. My parents were together through most of that time and we were a happy, sort of normal family.

The one hit song that I have tremendous gratitude for is Boots, because it has a life of its own. It's like being identified with a brand name.

I didn't just want to be Frank's daughter who sang Boots. I take my music very seriously and studied very hard. It's not a joke to me.

Morrissey wrote to me and said, I have a song for you and if we release it as a single, you'll be on the charts for the first time since 1972, I said, what time, where?

Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!

After 50, the rock 'n' roll road is a little absurd. It's very difficult to play these little places. You're out there on a rickety old bus with no place to shower.

I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.

Peace is found when people stand for morality and rejectculture. Defend freedom at all costs and at all times and peacewill rule the world instead of tyrants.

Happiness is a tenant that would only move into your life if you consistently focus on the positive side of your life.

I have everything in the world that is necessary to happiness--good faith, good friends, and all the work I can possibly do.

Keeping off a large weight loss is a phenomenon about as common in American medicine as an impoverished dermatologist.

If my attention is wandering, there is somewhere it wants to go, so obviously it does not want to be where I am holding it in the name of some self-styled obligation.

My first four albums covered the usual youth problems - looking for love in all the wrong places - while the next five are basically about being in your 30s.

May we try to listen and be silent in order to make space for the beauty of God.

I sometimes use a lot of light greens and greys when I feel there is sadness in the painting.

Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.

To know one thing thoroughly would be to know the universe.