I don’t want people to think of me as sexy.

We are all special cases.

A person hears only what they understand.

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

Without being the most confident person in the world, I think I am the right person for Liverpool.

Changes are not unusual – I mean, most movies, when they release them, they make changes. But somehow, when I make the slightest change, everybody thinks it’s the end of the world.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

Society has made us believe you should look like an 18-year-old model all your life.

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

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.

When somewhat at a distance, I cannot hear the high tones of instruments, voices. In speaking, it is not surprising that there are people who have never noticed it, for as a rule I am absent-minded, and they account for it in that way.

If you’re trying too hard to be the girl next door, you’re not going to be.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

If my mother knew I did this for a living, she’d kill me. She thinks I’m selling dope.

I would love to continue in music, with writing… but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don’t need to be blonde when I’m 60!

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you’re advancing. If you don’t you’re as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn’t there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.

I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it works.

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

In my heart, I’m confident I could make a good president.

I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I’m not afraid of my flaws.

There’s a reason that I have confidence out there, and it’s about how I prepare for games and for series and seasons and whatnot, so we’ve got to stick with that kind of thought process.

I want the world to see my body.

The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.

I won’t be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me. Of course, that doesn’t mean I want them to stop looking.

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

A lot of people ask me, ‚How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?‘ It’s because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they’re gonna say no to you, at least they’re gonna be polite about it.

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

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

Fashion is here to help make people look very important. If they have good taste and choose what suits them, I give them options on how they can do that. It’s always sexy, and it’s always with the same result: making women look fantastic.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

I’ve always felt like there was a lot of hype around me even when there wasn’t. I felt like everyone was talking about me even when no one was talking about me.

The hardest thing for – not only an artist but for anybody to do is look themselves in the mirror and acknowledge, you know, their own flaws and fears and imperfections and put them out there in the open for people to relate to it.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

It’s very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

I don’t have to be what you want me to be.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories – and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

In Italy they take cheap cloth and make it look expensive, but I take expensive cloth and make it look cheap. They just don’t understand.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

I always had faith in my creative capacity.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.

The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you’re wrinkled.

On the other hand, you have different fingers.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.