In the open air you don't play as many quiet songs as you would normally.

I don't think simple is an insult. Something that's really simple and great is probably harder to do than something more complex.

Sometimes things that are comfortable are comfortable because it's what you're good at. When you start doing the things you're not as comfortable with, there needs to be a reason for it.

We try to be open to letting anything change in the moment.

As the fans' voting reflected, people want to hear your best-known songs.

It's one of the things that makes it enjoyable to keep playing; you have to approach each set differently and make some balance between what you want to do and what seems right.

Some sports teams hate each other in the locker room and that's what makes them great.

There's an actual physiological thing that happens to me on tour. There's that moment where I sit in my seat and click the seatbelt, and five seconds later I fall asleep.

When people ask you to do stuff, it's not your idea anymore, so it's tough to get behind it.

I have grown more forgiving. I accept that not everything is for me. I'm not as in love with my own opinions as I used to be. And anger is not something that comes to me as quickly as it once did.

Life is like a song

To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision.

Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.

That's not how you're going to live, Bird Girl. Not on my account. Spread those strong wings of yours. Fly.

My favorite definition of success is that it is a state of mind combined with a state of readiness. You can have one and be a flop; if you have both, you'll win every time.

The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, 'What's so great about Billie Holiday?'

I appeal to the responsibility of the blocs and the major powers, not to seek security in the arms race, but rather in a meeting for joint disarmament and arms limitations.

I don't want to make a habit of just playing small roles, because I really enjoy the process of being part of a film and staying on it for the length of time that everybody else is as well.

The days of wine and roses laugh and run away like a child at playThrough the meadow land toward a closing doorA door marked "nevermore" that wasn't there before

With definite goals you release your own power, and things start happening.