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.

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.

They had survived, when so many had not. And no one ­else could understand what it was like to bear it, unless they had lost as much.

Every moment is a moment of decision, and every moment turns us inexorably in the direction of the rest of our lives.

I grew up watching my dad be a singer, so it's something I've always been interested in.

Condole - to show that bereavement is a smaller evil than sympathy.

No one did what I did last season and for this, I deserve the Golden Boot and why not the best World Player award?

I believe that much of the maladjustment in our societies is caused, not by malevolence and corruption, but simply by ignorance.

You've got to be willing to work, and if you're willing to work, you should be able to get ahead and stay ahead.

We must devastate the avenues where the wealthy live

Photography is a kind of overstatement, a heroic copulation with the material world.

The only reason I would write a break-up song is because my own problem of allowing myself to relate to people.