I would like to sing the theme tune of a big film - something like 'Titanic'.

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.

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.

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.

I see the insipid flesh blossoming and palpitating with abandon.

Pampered content is a public resignation of artistic integrity.

As long as I get to be doing what I love, which is making comedy and that kind of thing, I feel lucky that I get to.

At the end of the day, the Detroiter may be the most important American there is because no one knows better than he that we're all standing at the edge of the shaft.

Pleasure is not the purpose of man's existence. Joy is.

You have to learn the language of Hamlet.

Fear clogs; Faith liberates.

Milk many cows but make your own butter.

You're good, you're real good.

Writing on your own is, in a way, a very lonely profession. There's no one there to help you.