No fairy tale, this. This was by no stretch of the imagination a polished fantasy. This was a searing, living force, rough around the edges, unfamiliar and bittersweet.And precious.

Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer

Addiction is a relationship, a pathological relationship in which... obsession replaces people.

She's got Greta Garbo's standoff sighs, she's got Bette Davis eyes.

I write from what's in my heart. I write what I love and have always done that.

I never had any other thought in my mind. I was gonna write songs, I was gonna be a star and a singer and I never thought of doing anything else.

I'll be here where the heart is

Acting? No, it is not for me. I would be terrible.

I love to write, to sing, to make music. Not to act: I am horrible.

Hope you're pleased with the crumbs she throws you.

The European public has always been great to me.

I couldn't imagine my life without getting to know God. He knows me, He created me. He should be known.

Yes, well, I'm not asking you to hide anything. Hiding won't help you. You can't very well hide from a pit, can you? You just need to avoid falling into it." - Brohan Madhrarigal

The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux.

When I left Chicago, people said, 'Careful with that Texas heat'. I'm like, 'I'm from Puerto Rico. I know heat.

Nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a wordly way.

You see people who are 19 or 20 years old and they don't even know who The Who is. It's like, where have you been? Justin Timberlake? C'mon. Where are the roots?

It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.

I do think of myself as a queen, but I don't think I'm the only queen. There's room for other queens. We reign over different kingdoms.

[Hillary] Clinton is much more embracing of the global economy and the international world order. [Ben] Sanders and [Scott] Warren are much less so.

We have so many ideas about things we have never tried.