Thank God that I get to do what I get to do; there's no way to tell you how grateful I am.

Act as young as you feel. You're not getting older; you're getting more entitled to be your fabulous self.

Sometimes you have to sacrifice your performance for high heels.

I wanted so badly to have a backup plan for when I'm not performing anymore. Let's be realistic: it's not going to be like this forever.

After you make a fool of yourself a few hundred times, you learn what works.

Life is short and you've got to get the most out of it.

Love is when you have a bad day but then you see the one you love and everything seems to be ok

Never say never. In your life you never know what's going to happen next.

No one can force me to do something unless I'm passionate about it.

I think I've been able to fool a lot of people because I know I'm a dork. I'm a geek.

My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've been going through a personal nightmare.

Age focuses you. You are much better concentrated. There's more time when you travel less, don't do book tours, avoid interviews or public appearances. You walk the dogs, fish, hunt, cook and write.

I have not survived against all odds. I have not lived to tell. I have not witnessed the extraordinary. This is my story.

Dream not ... of having tasted all the grandeur and wildness of fancy till you have gone mad!

It's very important with an artificial leg that all high heels are exactly the same height.

I'm shy, although I'm not shy with my friends and family.

God will give to you what He knows will flow through you.

We may suppose that everyone has in himself the whole form of a moral conception.

I feel the need to work with my wife, Lena Olin, again.

I feel my greatest work is yet to come.

There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue.