Women temper men. We have a good influence on them.

Hindsight is wonderful. It's always very easy to second guess after the fact.

I wanted control over the merchandising, the actual packaging of the product. That was a big factor. The only way for me to exercise control on all those levels was to start my own label.

Sometimes it seems like you and me against the world.

I am strong, I am invincible, I am woman.

If I have to, I can do anything.

I did my own music videos, my own TV commercials.

I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend.

A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists.

Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time.

I always believed that I could make it or I would never have spent so many years trying to get here.

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

If you were mine, I'd never leave you, Prudence. I couldn't.

Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.

I was born not to die but to live and never born.

We should be suspicious when God's call conforms so neatly to our own inclinations.

No one ever wants to see his or her name linked to anything bad. Conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.

There's a shot up the alley. Oh, it's just foul.

Not letting the world destroy you. That’s a daily battle.

Structure ignites spontaneity. Limits yield intensity. When we play... by our self-chosen rules, we find that containment of strength amplifies strength.

Singing wasn't a reality for me, until other people started noticing I sounded good.