The female rock-'n'-roll-country-pop songwriter is back, and her name is Taylor Swift. And it's women like her who are going to save the music business.

But never have I been a blue calm sea I have always been a storm.

I'm going to be singing Dreams and Rhiannon when I'm 75 - and that's just fine with me. I just hope my chiffon doesn't get tangled in my rocking chair.

My life is a testament to believing that if you want something you can make it happen.

If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?

You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I think I'd make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility.

My other family is Fleetwood Mac. I don't need the money, but there's an emotional need for me to go on the road again. There's a love there; we're a band of brothers.

I totally believe in magic. Because my life, I think, has been very magic, and magical things have come true for me time after time after time.

Timeless is the creature who is wise. And timeless is the prisoner in disguise.

I believe that there is a certain amount of mysticism that all women should have, that you should never tell all your secrets, that you should never tell everybody all about you.

All I ever wanted Was to know that you were dreaming.

Everyone who fights always fight with a purpose in mind.

The price of winning is dedication and the price of dedication is concentration. To get any of the two you have to accept to toil for both.

Dialogue with the self is the source of all insight and insight is the only thing that can change your life.

By disobeying immoral orders, that individual preserves the institution's highest rank - dignity.

I'd rather believe in reincarnation than hell. The idea of an afterlife is much so more tolerable when returning is an option.

Being an MP is a good job, the sort of job all working-class parents want for their children -- clean, indoors and no heavy lifting. What could be nicer?

The moral imperative of life is to live a life that detracts not at all from the lives available to those who will follow us into this world.

To say we love God as unseen and at the same time exercise cruelty toward the least creature moving by His life or by life derived from Him, was a contradiction in itself.

You're never totally sure. I shouldn't say that because you have to pretend you're completely self-secure all the time. But, the truth is, I know what I'm doing. I think I know what I'm doing.

In all the silent manliness of grief.