If I hadn't been a model, I couldn't have become a movie actress.

I love boats. I can be on a boat for days.

Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.

I hate jealousy, I hate possessiveness. I'm nobody's possession.

No matter how much you try to pretend and force yourself and maybe fight against love and try to forget or be oblivious to it, there's no way to fight it. I think when it's there, it's there.

Being single is only sad if you have a problem with your own company. I'm content with mine.

Having people I love around me - friends and family - is great, but I don't necessarily need a relationship.

I love it when a man cooks; it's one of those points that makes me adore a guy. I think it's so romantic and I feel cared for when a man cooks.

I'm a bit of a romantic. In theory!

I like men who paint or write or do something creative.

I maybe missed money in my childhood, but I didn't miss love, that's for sure. My dad wasn't there, but I can tell you not even once did I think I was missing something.

... a whole day’s tête-à-tête between two women can never end without a quarrel.

I love this job. I love it to death. I love every waking minute of it.

I tell people that we must have the courage to share what we feel, but no one follows me.

You know, it's a truism that writers for children must still be children themselves, deep down, must still feel childish feelings, and a child's surprise at the world.

When you live alone, you can be sure that the person who squeezed the toothpaste tube in the middle wasn't committing a hostile act.

Ive enjoyed programming on NPR, but were broke and therefore all spending must be reduced.

I do love compliments, yet I'm often embarrassed to say what I think to the person when I get a compliment. I so often feel that they have not gone far enough.

May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness.

I have people come onstage and ask me questions and I get to meet them. That's one of the reasons I like it. When you're performing, when you're doing your movies, they're not there with you.

Best to say that once a poem is finished I trust it to make its way, and I trust readers will find their way to it and through it, if the thing has got itself rightly expressed.