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

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.

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.

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

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.

It will be a very long time before I trust you ever, ever - OK, I trust you again.

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

The pig was soon dissected and its blood filled the bucket in the bottom of which a patch of sky was reflected darkly. It had surrendered to the vortex of life and his breathing.

Im off to race around the world - a race against time and two men. I know I can beat time. I hope I can beat the men.

Natalie from the Dixie Chicks could have said what she said before 9-11 and no one would have cared.

They say ya additude determines ya laditude.

The community isn't nearly as afraid as it thinks it is.

But the word "right" is one of the most deceptive of pitfalls; it is so easy to slip from a qualified meaning in the premise to an unqualified one in the conclusion. Most rights are qualified.

We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls.

Leadership is the intelligent use of power.