I can't help it if I stretch the truth, not if that's the way it happened.

True contentment comes with empathy.

Weave me a rope that will pull me through these impossible times.

I think quite a lot of people have a friendship or a love that's gone like that and it never quite reconciles properly.

Walking beside you I want for nothing.

Why can't you write a great pop song when you are 85? Maybe you can.

I think a good song is a good song is a good song.

I'm a live performer and I love playing live.

Just like any songwriter, I love it when people sing my songs.

I've got kids now and they will constantly pull you into the here and now - they are very present and very vivid.

It is interesting how one word can spark memories that one believes she has buried beyond recognition.

Lies are like muscles: it takes practice to make them strong.

We labor under the great delusion that we are in control. Silly humans.

I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one.

Your readiest desire is your path to joy ... even if it destroys you.

Living in New Zealand, it's like a different world - it is a different world. It's very, very cool.

I wasn't an active feminist in the '60s, never have been.

When I'm governor... I'll be the first governor with a listed telephone number.

If somebody here in America is against war crime and against stealing lands from Palestinians by Jews, he's already not allowed into Israel.