I didn’t think it was special to be able to sing.

Enemies are so stimulating.

I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body.

I’m crazy and I don’t pretend to be anything else.

People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

I’m almost like three people. There’s me the, Dolly, the person. There’s me, the star. And then there’s me, the manager.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

Music has the power to inspire the world.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

No one sells a song better than the person that wrote it.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

I do probably 60 concerts a year in the States. And I go out to clubs in the week. I’m doing new stuff all the time.

I’m not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It’s really not my place.

It’s a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

Therapy? I don’t need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

I think it’s a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

Every man’s memory is his private literature.

I’m afraid that people who know me as I usually am will discover I have another side, a better and finer side. I’m afraid they’ll mock me, think I’m ridiculous and sentimental and not take me seriously. I’m used to not being taken seriously, but only the ‚light-hearted‘ Anne is used to it and can put up with it; the ‚deeper‘ Anne is too weak.

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.

If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more, we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song.

I try to sprinkle a little gems and jewels in the music that people could use in their own life.

People tried to change my concept of what music is. That music is work, but it’s not like that.

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.

I think, generally, I just cannot really envision life without writing and producing records and singing.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.

As long as you blame someone or something else – something outside you that’s bigger than you are – as the source of your problems, the problems won’t get solved.

One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

I have been singing randomly, obsessively, obnoxiously for as long as I can remember.

I guess you could say it’s always been my destiny to be a performer.

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

I was raised to be independent.

If I’m inspired to make a certain kind of song, I’m going to make that kind of song, no matter if it’s what they know me as or think I am.

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.

I’m born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.

Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don’t have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?

My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.

I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don’t know anything about.

There’s a reason why the Foo Fighters don’t blast out Nirvana songs every night: because we have a lot of respect for them. You know, that’s hallowed ground. We have to be careful. We have to tread lightly. We have talked about it before, but the opportunity hasn’t really come up, or it just hasn’t felt right.

I’m not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down.

One of my proudest moments is I didn’t sell my soul for the sake of popularity.

I sang a lot of low stuff on songs like ‚Secrets‘ and ‚Rockin‘,‘ almost like Toni Braxton. On ‚Secrets,‘ I’m a different person.

It’s much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

I’ve made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven’t lived in vain.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

In high school I wanted to be a rock star and was in a lot of bands.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.