My kids love Ibiza and we feel committed to it because we keep coming back to the same area. People recognise us in shops now and we have a social life here. We cook at home and have friends around.

When a child is born into this world it has no concept of the tone the skin is living in.

I have absorbed my life now. I am ready for my music to unfold. I know time flies, but before the end of this year, the album will be out. Even if it kills me.

I've always looked to other women for inspiration and kicks. When a woman stands up and does her thing, it never ceases to excite and inspire me.

Who needs a handbag? I put my money in my bra.

When I found out I was pregnant, my mother said, 'Dont separate your life, the life that youre going to make with this child, from the things that you are and what you want to do.'

There's been a lot of coming home in the early mornings after funny nights out, having bizarre sandwiches in bed.

I had this weird, nomadic little tent with a rug over it, like a booth where I'd sing the vocals.

Being a grandmother is one of the least strange things in my life. It makes more sense than a lot of things... like photo shoots!

To save my child, I'd rather go hungry. I got all of Ethiopia inside of me.

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

I think that there is a lot going on with young people today.

Yes, writing is not easy. But can any writer imagine NOT writing?

It's one thing to communicate to people because you believe you have something of value to say. It's another to communicate with people because you believe they have value.

In order to know what he is, a man must first know what the sum of this mysterious humanity is, a humanity made up of people who, like himself, do not understand what they are.

It is painful for me to see when criminal elements of all kinds fire from my weapon.

Pearls ... have a way of dying when separated from their owner.

If our hopes are being disappointed just now, it means they are being purified.

Her cover version of Smells Like Teen Spirit is the reason Kurt killed himself.

Just as I suspected, my room does look different, post-eclipse. It looks smalled, like it can't contain me anymore. After all, I've got a whole new world to see.