Intention has little power, if any - it´s what you DO that has the power to change your life and the world around you.

If you needed some sort of sign, here it is. Get going! You can do it!

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.

I always like to arrive at the airport early to enjoy breakfast and lounge about so that when I get on the plane all my travel fever has disappeared.

We're still who we are at the roots. I reckon, hopefully, you let it branch out a little bit and you learn. You live and learn, so that's what we've tried to do.

You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.

if I'd thought that nobody would like it as I was writing it, I would have written it even more. But I never think of the audience. I never think of people reading. I never think of people, period.

Avoid the "hard-to-grasp" headline - the headline that requires thought and is not clear at first glance.

Becoming a mother has been the most amazing experience - in an instant you become strong. You have to be a little bit wiser; it's the most important job in the world.

I feel that the single-minded pursuit of wealth has led the middle classes into a crisis.

The first song I wrote was the first song I remember thinking, "Well, maybe I can do something here." The very first one. By the second one I knew I could do something.