I’ve just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

As is the case with most people in this game, I am driven by financial motives and creative motives; the question I had to answer is which motive I will give priority to?

It’s no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.

I think everybody’s trying to get to a place in themselves where they conquer what they was afraid of; they achieve some of their life goals, kept their word about what they were trying to do.

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that’s Memoirs.

Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us… While what we call ‚our own life‘ remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make ‚our own life‘ less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.

Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can’t move, you keep prejudice for years. Never get nowhere with that.

Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

They would not find me changed from him they knew – only more sure of all I thought was true.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

I was so rude when I was a little girl.

When I was younger, I was testing myself and questioning everything, but now it’s less about that and more about these are the years of my life with my family.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

I’m only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

At the end of the day, I understand that life has road blocks, and life is like school – you’ll be tested; we gotta pass it.

Things won’t get better dwelling on the past. Accept what has happened. Then move forward.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

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

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

I don’t think I’m tangible to myself.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic.

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.

It’s an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

The way I approach this thing, when I started to get my head screwed on straight and really trying to make something of myself as an artist, when I was 19 or 20, it became more about function for me. Like, what is this song doing to you? What is the function of this type of artform? What is it doing?

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.

I’m not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We’re not ‚celebrities‘, whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They’re what people meet.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

We boil at different degrees.

My life is my argument.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

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.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.