Our thoughts are not the problem. Our thoughts do not create the psychological smog. It is the way we respond to our thoughts that creates the smog.

Building a good relationship with ourselves is essential for inner fulfilment, especially when we run into a large reality gap.

Constantly re-evaluating your purpose is the best way to ensure that you are pursuing the goals of who you are and not who you used to be.

I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.

I'd rather be wrong to set you free than be right to do you harm (162).

The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

He had that rare weird electricity about him - that extremely wild and heavy presence that you only see in a person who has abandoned all hope of ever behaving normally.

The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.

My writing voice is a little quirkier, more singer-songwriter-y than the Top 40 stuff I cover.

You're looking at a different me than I'm looking at.

I love to travel the world. My husband and I always travel and everywhere we go I've been to Italy, of course London, Ireland, and you just receive so much love.

The only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost.