I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.

My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.

There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me.

There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection.

I'm a country bumpkin. I'm not a showgirl.

The press has always written that I am a recluse and a mysterious woman, but I am more down-to-earth than they think.

I have one pug and one Czechoslovakian dog called Prazsky krysarik.

I just want to live in peace and quiet.

When I record, it feels like I'm in a bubble. There's nothing else in my head right then. It's just that song, and I'm trying to really sound like what the song is about.

It's strange that the newspapers don't see a connection between their false revelations about my private life and my need for seclusion and security.

No one who has experienced facing a screaming, boiling, hysterical audience can avoid feeling shivers in the spine. It's a thin line between celebration and menace.

Appreciate youthful exuberance.

And so I learned about grief, and about the absence and emptiness that for a long time make grief unforgettable.

You know how it feels to think you've ruined everything. You're hoping if my story has a happy ending there's hope for yours too...

We do not exist for ourselves alone, and it is only when we are fully convinced of this fact that we begin to love ourselves properly and thus also love others.

We want to decipher skies and paintings, go behind these starry backgrounds or these painted canvases and, like kids trying to find a gap in a fence, try to look through the cracks in the world.

You can't publish a paper on physics without the full experimental data and results; that should be the standard in journalism.

It's perseverance that's the key. It's persevering for long enough to achieve your potential.

The night has always been my friend. When I go out I feel good, then I always score goals.

Honesty is not the best policy - merely the safest

It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stuff that's not needed.