The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to.'

I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me.

Trouble is a part of life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.

I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today. Why should unmarried women be discriminated against - unmarried men are not.

I'd like people to remember that I really tried everything within my range of reality. And that whatever I did, I did with all my heart.

Tennis is like a wonderful, longstanding relationship with a husband. Golf is a tempestuous, lousy lover; it's totally unpredicatable, a constant surprise.

Trouble is part of your life

And I've never taken up a sport just because it was a social fad.

It's a faithless love, but you hit four good shots and you've started your day right.

I can't remember a time when I wasn't singing.

When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don't think the farmers could ever leave on Saturday afternoon until I had been placed up on the counter to sing.

I meant, " said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"Death thought about it.CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.

If we kiss, it will change everything.

A woman will always be insecure if she attaches her identity and sense of worth to the amount of male attention she gets.

The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.

It makes me feel so amazing to know there's people out here that support me and follow me on Twitter and watch my shows on YouTube and come to my concert, so I'm very thankful.

George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.

My sobriety isn't up for discussion, but as for vices, I seem to hack away at them with my invisible machete from dawn till dusk. The vice of 'more' is an ongoing theme.

My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.

It's like Brad Pitt for us. You might not like blond men with pretty features, but c'mon, it's Brad. You're not going to kick him out of bed for eating crackers.

I do as much research as is physically possible when I'm playing a real person, be they alive or dead.