The press has always written that I am a recluse and a mysterious woman, but I am more down-to-earth than they think.

My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.

There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me.

There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection.

I'm a country bumpkin. I'm not a showgirl.

I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.

I have one pug and one Czechoslovakian dog called Prazsky krysarik.

I just want to live in peace and quiet.

When I record, it feels like I'm in a bubble. There's nothing else in my head right then. It's just that song, and I'm trying to really sound like what the song is about.

It's strange that the newspapers don't see a connection between their false revelations about my private life and my need for seclusion and security.

No one who has experienced facing a screaming, boiling, hysterical audience can avoid feeling shivers in the spine. It's a thin line between celebration and menace.

I put in no claims either for happiness, for gratification, or even for the common comforts of life: yet, surely, I had a right to exist!

… and I’ll be happy here and happy there, fullof tea and tears

If you follow the devil, your journey will end up in the hell! This is what happens to those who follow the dictators!

No matter how much success you're having, you can't continue working together if you can't communicate.

The vows one makes privately are more binding than any ceremony or even a Shubert contract.

There's two things I gotta do. One is, I gotta update my resume. And then, I have to call my mother.

Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale... from hell's heart I stab at thee.

Man becomes virtually an automaton in the loss of his individuality and responsibility. He is the harp of a thousand strings played upon by a divine hand, but not a man!

Flattery is the infantry of negotiation.

There's something so healthy about young people speaking up in unity.