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

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

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.

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.

Relationships: If you put up with it, you’re going to end up with it. Set the standard you want and don’t settle for less.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

Too many thousands of opened books yawned between them and him. He had exiled himself.

When you laugh – you surrender to the greatness of this moment.

Every wave in an ocean has a secret to tell you

I rather fight for light then to go blind in night.

We as [churches] may be lampstands, but all of the light is Christ Himself. We exist in order that He might shine through us.

Ever since there's been a Hollywood, they remake a movie every 20 years.

The thing I'm not good with is mediocrity, when someone isn't really trying to reach something.

But I think my mistakes became the chemistry for my miracles. I think that my tests became my testimonies.