When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record.

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.

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.

Unless there is a God, all morality is just opinion and belief. And virtually every atheist philosopher has acknowledged this.

Intelligence is worthless without common sense.

Real patience is not the same as waiting impatiently for something for a long time. Patience is having patience with patience.

Compromise makes a good umbrella but a poor roof it is a temporary expedient often wise in party politics almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

I love modeling because I get to see everything that inspires me. Then I go home and sketch.

Another world must surely exist somewhere one where she would be known in some deep way that was far beyond words.

An ignorant friend is worse than a learned foe.

I speak on things I'd like to speak on. Anything else, I'll keep quiet.

I was going for the idea that a time can also be a location. You can revisit a time of year, in the same way you can go back to a house that you used to live in.

In books there's nothing of the fish covered in the coldness of the sea, or the feeling of a star touching space. Bad for business.