Some of the worst places I've ever lived in were fear, pain, and shame. The cost of living was so high, your only choice was a slow death.

Oh yes. Sometimes love hurts. But the lack of love kills.

Don't ask too much for space. They grow into voids.

You're not going to get what you want out of life till you figure out what it wants out of you.

Everything you are sure of will be tested.

I will not apologise when the shape of my heart offends you.

You rarely get closure when you leave something unknown.

One day I hope to hear "this is the world we live in" used in a positive light.

You lost the ability to see beauty in others because your vision got clouded by someone who sold you a fantasy that no one could live up to.

Watch them describe you to somebody else and see how it long it takes for them to bring up your physical description that'll tell you all.

One of the scariest things in the world, is that other people can make life-changing decisions for you.

Being a mother and grandmother is the best of the best in my life. My grandchildren multiply the joy my daughters bring me.

I was born in a world of opera, theatre, films, poetry, art, and therefore, out of the wire, I made a stage. That's why they call me a high wire artist.

Any president's second term ends up being quite messy. It never goes quite according to plan.

For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.

No one believes in God any more, but everyone believes in Bach.

I'm a true believer that unless you're Prince or Stevie Wonder - and even Prince is showing that he needs help - not everybody can produce themselves. I'm definitely not that person.

It’s an odd thing, happiness. Some people take happiness from gold. Or black pearls. And some of us, far more fortunate, take their happiness from periwinkles.

Being able to sing all these years has helped me handle life's tragedies.

I'm in the process of convincing my parents to sell me their house so I can just live in my childhood bedroom forever. I figure it might make me age slower.

The happiest moments we ever know are when we entirely forget ourselves.