I wrote '('Til) I Kissed You' about a girl I met in Australia. Her name was Lilian, and she was very, very inspirational. I was married, but... I wrote the song about her on the way back home.

Old men need applause too.

I don't know of any artist who started off in the 50's who's making it now with new material.

Those who have eyes…do not know their happiness.

Confidence is armor you cannot buy.

The meaning of life is simply the meaning we give to it.

Love me, love my dog.

I get to be the first doctor in the family [because of the honorary degree they're giving me].

It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

I still have to audition for most things.

I had a dozen years to act before starting a family then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value.

Elizabeth A. Johnson explains that including divine female symbols and images not only challenges the dominance of male images but also calls into question the structure of patriarchy itself.

Keeping the peace with the particular man in one's life becomes more essential than battling the mass male culture.