My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.

There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me.

There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection.

I'm a country bumpkin. I'm not a showgirl.

I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.

The press has always written that I am a recluse and a mysterious woman, but I am more down-to-earth than they think.

I have one pug and one Czechoslovakian dog called Prazsky krysarik.

I just want to live in peace and quiet.

When I record, it feels like I'm in a bubble. There's nothing else in my head right then. It's just that song, and I'm trying to really sound like what the song is about.

It's strange that the newspapers don't see a connection between their false revelations about my private life and my need for seclusion and security.

No one who has experienced facing a screaming, boiling, hysterical audience can avoid feeling shivers in the spine. It's a thin line between celebration and menace.

Law and justice are not the same.

Plant the trees just for beauty, If flowers bloom or fruits ripen, Enjoy it as a gift and appreciate nature as a universal giver.

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

I knew I wanted to do something at the nexus of what I call global development and technology.

Egypt is in the second day of angry street protests. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is calling for calm. Because nothing calms an enraged Arab country like a powerful woman ordering it around.

If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.

Personally I think people's labels are terribly unhelpful because they enable you to dismiss things.

The terrain of the mysteries is the ordinary. To seek out mystery, we don't have to go anywhere. We must simply change our preception, our description, our consciousness of where we are.

I do feel like at the end of anger I have to have something that grounds it.

I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal and rebut the refutation. Endlessly.