In highly charged political matters, one person's ambiguity may be another person's truth.

The honours system gets to grade people. Graded grains make finer rice.

When you are in the future, the past looks different.

Reduce the speed and intensity to reduce stress. A flower blooms slowly, in calmness, and in serenity.

Music makes you braver.

life is like maths, if you understand you enjoy, if you don't you keep messing more

If you have the will to win you have achieved half your success if you don't you have achieved half your failure.

Rock 'n' roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.

What will it take for you to believe in me, the way that I believe in you?

I don't just sing for free. It's my work. You're paid for what you do. And I work hard.

We should try to bring to any power what we have as women. We will destroy it all if we try to imitate that absolutely unfeeling, driving ambition that we have seen coming at us across the desk.

So, after all, we are but puppets, creatures of our fate, not commanding it but being molded by it.

I often write from memory by walking around and talking to myself. Even when I'm working at a computer I write out loud, so that I can hear the poem's rhythm.