Sometimes the best vacation is simply closing your eyes for several minutes and recalling wonderful memories.

My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am.

You got nothing to lose. You don't lose when you lose fake friends.

Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t do something. Make your own victories. Make your own mistakes.

Girls have got balls. They're just a little higher up, that's all.

Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want to do. Sometimes people call that rebellion, especially when you're a woman.

I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do.

You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don't, if you walk out onstage complacent, that's not a good thing.

I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules.

The greatest possession we have costs nothing; it's known as love.

Success isn't one straight line - it's a ladder, and there's always another rung above you to reach out for. Like anything else, there are ups and downs.

Our world is built on biology and once we begin to understand it, it then becomes a technology.

When a plane lands in the Hudson and there's a Twitter user on the ferry taking a picture of it, Boom. That's it. The water is still splashing. Here's the photo of the thing.

This is the complacency I have run into.

I don't mean to be a diva, but some days you wake up and you're Barbara Streisand.

You have to think about how you're going to present yourself and want people, wanna show your stuff and who you are

I don't think that good politics ever excuse a bad song.

With monochrome painting... the idiosyncrasy of the work, its difference, its expression, lies in shape.

Now we get quite a lot of complaints that we don't feature enough affordable cars on the show so we'll kick off tonight with the cheapest Ferrari of them all!

Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.

A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once.