When I first go out on stage, there are tummy bubbles everywhere.

Cause you mean the world to me, you are my everything; I swear the only thing that matters, matters to me.

Performing live is the greatest high in the world. That's why I do what I do

I'll probably be 80 years old and still performing. Music is like fashion, it changes. But some things will always be the same.

I'm not a diva. I'm a tadpole trying to be a frog.

I can imagine you touching my private parts. With just the thought of you I can't help, but touch myself.

I take an active role in my imaging and how I look.

How could an Angel break my heart? Why didn't he catch my falling star? I wish I didn't wish so hard. Maybe I wished our love apart.

I can't record in the morning because I sound like Barry White.

When you take high risks, the rewards are higher. So sometimes I'll gamble just to see what happens. If it doesn't work, I know I can't do that.

...And i can't get you out of my mind, God knows how hard I've tried.

Look ahead, because life is before you, not behind you, or else you stumble!

I am just a person who can't skate in the mountains

We have a lot of women on the staff, obviously. It's a predominantly female writing staff and we hire the best people. It's not like we go we need more women or we need four women directing.

Destructiveness is the outcome of an unlived life.

I do not know where to find in any literature, whether ancient or modern, any adequate account of that Nature with which I am acquainted.

Growing up, I was always really shy about my body.

I'd like to see people, instead of spending so much time on the ethical problem, get after the problems that really affect the people of this country

The quiet, singing voice of the rose. The song that promised all might be well, all might be well, that all manner of things might be well.

Once in a while there are things the brain simply refuses to accept as being true because they appear too improbable, too unlikely, too preposterous.

All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand! Oh, oh, oh!