Ah, the feeling you get holding a diamond in your hand! It seems to bore into your skin, to burn, to breathe. It's like holding a bit of the moon in your hand.

Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Children are like puppies: you have to keep them near you, and look after them, if you want their affection.

It's so unfair that we should die, just because we are born.

A divorcee is a women who got married so she didn't have to work, but now works so she doesn't have to get married.

[To reporter who telephoned with news of her Oscar:] If you are joking me, I will get up immediately and kill you wherever you are.

Let your soul bloom like a flower with the beauty and fragrance of divine love.

Our charity begins at home And mostly ends where it begins.

Like, you can find your dream, if you firmly believe. You have to have the innocence, and you have to have the daringness to trust.

I think I'd like to be best friends with Björk, because I'd like to pick her brain a lot all the time and just have weird times together.

How often God takes away our consolations, that we may only love Him for Himself; and reveals our sinfulness, that we may better appreciate the completeness of his salvation!

There is no change - I'm as deep or as shallow as I ever was. What's new is on-the-job experience. This is what you gain with years.

The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.

I like to have people around and an environment with constant feedback on what I'm doing.

Talking is good. Conversations have to be forever.

Obviously I can't rely on my group, but I don't want to rely on a laptop just to play back some backing tracks, that's not the way I do things really.