Sometimes when you're overwhelmed by a situation - when you're in the darkest of darkness - that's when your priorities are reordered.

There were times when I had maybe a couple of hundred dollars, and times I made myself think I was on top of the world.

I know there's a consciousness energy that operates completely independent of the physical body you inhabit, that maintains... awareness after the body's gone.

The most common misconception about me is that I'm basically a jazz singer.

I wanted to be the greatest woman guitarist alive. I had fantasies about being a female Jimi Hendrix.

My life was very tenuous last year. My daughter's death, in March in 2007, was unexpected. It was a shock. I didn't know if I'd survive it.

A friend hipped me to hypoglycemia, which an article I read calls 'a disease for a nation of sugar junkies.' Who knows how many people in this country have it?

Once I get out onstage, it's the same sort of basic production that it is anywhere else. But I might be a little bit aware that there might be people I know out there, who wondered where I was.

The thing that helped me come to terms with performing was an anxiety, a desperation for acceptance. There was never enough positive motivation in my life.

If the baby is sick, you won't find me showing up to play my gigs. If I have a contract, there is going to be a clause in that contract saying that if the baby is sick I will not appear.

I lost interest in being in the public eye.

Better watch her. She burns other people's books.

Hope is the desire to bloom, but faith believes and visualizes the bloom.

There are no shortcuts through the wilderness of life.

From beggar to thief is one step, but a step in two directions at the same time, for what a beggar loses in morality when he becomes a thief he regains in self-respect.

I grew up in the time of Germany after the war.

I have long ties to the women's community.

Even a broke clock is right twice a day

There's not an orchestra in the world that doesn't have weaknesses. None of us can play everything well. The repertoire is just too big.

The job of senior management is to cultivate an environment where store managers can learn from the market and from each other.

To live another person's life is quite a weird thing.