The whole beauty of music is that it goes where your words won't let you.

You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours.

Whatever you are made of, be the best of that.

A man told me that for a woman, I was very opinionated. I said, 'for a man you're kind of ignorant'.

I have no aspirations of world domination through the pop charts. None at all.

I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl.

I think that people had this idea that I sat at home and sucked on lollipops and ate cotton candy while I watched cartoons - wearing a tiara.

Oftentimes, what you wind up learning is very different than what you expect.

But you have to remember in life that there's a positive to every negative and a negative to every positive.

Your face needs to have character if you're an actor - otherwise you're just a face.

I've always believed in people's capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I'm not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.

Siblings that say they never fight are most definitely hiding something

Death cuts off possibilities. Even if they were possibilities you never meant to act on, it feels differentwhen they’re gone.

When words remain unspoken and emotions are left unexpressed, just a glint in the eyes from otherness can inflame the mind and rouse a shower of empathy. ("Only needed a light ")

Keep Holding on there's no other way to comes to the truth.

You now have permission to be strong and healthy and calm and relaxed. There's no place else to go. There's nothing else to do.

I always wanted to be a snake. Every time I saw a snake on TV. I'd always say 'Why not me?'

Not to follow the dharma leads to disaster. Life will be unhappy.

I am not a Frenchie, I'm a Belgie!

The supreme religious test of our social order is the hideous commerce of prostitution.

Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we feel 107.