My life is my argument.

My life is not unlike Truman’s. I can’t go anywhere.

I was asked to act when I couldn’t act. I was asked to sing ‚Funny Face‘ when I couldn’t sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn’t dance – and do all kinds of things I wasn’t prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can’t imagine how often I’ve tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne – to beat her down, hide her.

I always say that women should wear whatever makes them feel good about themselves. That’s what I always try to do.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

I think that by staying true to myself and making music from my heart, the blessings come.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

My body is quite tiny, but a lot of the emotions I feel are pretty explosive. They have to come out.

I haven’t changed at all. I’m the same as when I was 11.

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

I went through a lot of battles in high school.

Hair is about when you’re younger. I am my hair.

If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.

I let the American people down.

I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

Relish everything that’s inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

I didn’t consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

For some reason, I’m really comfortable talking about my personal life in songs.

I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I’m going to grow artistically.

If my life was a movie, no one would believe it.

We cannot learn men from books.

I was at a New Year’s Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, ‚I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,‘ and I actually meant it.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Sometimes I’ve called writing a disease. If so, I’m glad that it caught me.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn’t be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.

You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Ageing’s alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

It’s not morbid to talk about death. Most people don’t worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

I can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

Accept everything about yourself – I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end – no apologies, no regrets.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.