When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it's about other people.

Curvy is something to be proud of.

Celebrity culture is an aspirational culture regardless of how much you don't want it to be.

There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.

I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.

I'm really into food; it's one of my favourite things - everything from potato waffles to lobster.

My denim jacket had 'I love GNR' and 'I love AC/DC' written all over it, but I always came back to swing.

There's nothing better than achieving your goals, whatever they might be.

All the things that I find beautiful have a darkness about them.

I enjoy being a girl.

You feel a sense of elation seeing yourself on a billboard.

Surround yourself with people who make you laugh. Laughter is to the soul what sunshine is to a flower.

You can only take steps toward the future you want. It's not guaranteed to be there.

In MoonlightNoSoft sweet paw on my cheekNoFur curled under my chinJustA sad space left behind - Gray cat gone away. [Ellie's poem]

Things are tough all over, cupcake, an' it rains on the just an' the unjust alike...except in California.

I felt Clinton represented the worst of the 1960s.

As one gets older, this question of death, becomes more vexing and urgent.

I did have an occasion in 1951 to have two days of observation of many flights of them, they were of different sizes, flying in fighter formation, generally from east to west over Europe.

Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.

I learned very early in life that I was always going to need people more than they needed me

A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference. It pardons shortcomings, it consoles failure.