I hate the actual traveling, but I like playing.

Be good to yourself 'cause nobody else has the power to make you happy.

I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.

I've done too many stupid things for there not to be movies made about me when I'm dead, so I might as well write the script.

Change is a stranger you have yet to know.

Without despair, we will share, and the joys of caring will not be erased. What has been, must never end, the joys of caring will not be replace.

People, you can never change the way they feel. Better let them do what they will. For they will, if you let them, steal your heart.

It's important to me that I should be free to express myself.

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.

I have to believe that somebody up there thinks I've still got some work to do.

I have never thought about my sexuality being right or wrong. To me it has always been a case of finding the right person.

It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.

I have found that those who try to shield us from the truth, regardless of the reason, end up doing the greatest harm. Truth alone sets you free, not lies and omissions.

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

Do what makes you happy! It's that simple.

I'm constantly trying to be as original as I can.

No nation can be destroyed while it possesses a good home life.

All authors to their own defects are blind.

I look for places where there's no one out on the water. I'd rather surf a wave to myself than fight a crowd.

My grandmother could never have written a memoir, so 'The Gravedigger's Daughter' is a homage to her life, and to the lives of other young women of her generation, which are so rarely articulated.

It's easy to be brave when they're not my fears.