In the music industry, intelligence in women is undervalued.

We are bits of energy floating about in various guises, and when we die we rejoin the big cosmic soup of the universe.

They say for every high high there must be a low low low low low

Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.

I like to get dark sometimes and then come back out into the light.

I'd love to win a Grammy! Not ambitious or anything. And just having a really lovely bunch of kids and a happy family life, would be good for me.

I think the best cure is to stop doing the thing that you think you should be doing and go and have a bit of fun in another medium, maybe other crazy things.

I did gardening and cooking and drawing and reading to try take the pressure off the music - just being eclectic and putting the fun back in and bringing more innocence in again is really important.

Music's free and music's for everyone to enjoy and express and interpret. It transcends countries and times and decades.

When I was little, I grew up in a place called Hertfordshire, which is just near London, but out in the country, and I visited Pakistan in the summers to go and see my family on my dad's side.

The greatest power is the power of pray.

I am committing suicide by cigarette, ” I replied. She thought that was reasonably funny. I didn’t. I thought it was hideous that I should scorn life that much, sucking away on cancer sticks.

Defeat is a thing of weariness of incoherence of boredom.

The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him.

You must radiate success before it’ll come to you.

Let all Black Poets die as trumpets, And be buried in the dust of marching feet.

This nation was established by the God of heaven as a citadel of liberty. A Constitution guaranteeing those liberties was designed under the superintending influence of heaven.

What if instead of focusing on what you don't have, you concentrate on what you've got?

Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks. Life itself had become a secret affair.

I do believe that something akin to a racial caste system is alive and well in America.