When people come and see me, I want them to experience joy. I don't do any sad songs in my show. It's to lift the spirit.

Every step that I've taken was a learning lesson. Even to not think you're so big and so bad you can't fall.

When I met Letterman, he told me he thought 'Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)' was the greatest Christmas song he ever heard, and he wanted me to be on his show to sing it.

I am so thankful for the genius of Phil Spector, for his recognition of my talent to be the main voice of his Wall of Sound.

It means a lot to me, the sanctity of marriage.

I was a young girl, a virgin, and therefore men denied me rationality just as they denied it to all those who were not exactly like themselves, in all their unreason.

Live as a villain, die as a hero

I must try to remember that a boy's heart is not a man's, and perhaps a teacher must learn from his pupil, too, eh?

I make the kind of music I like

Resolved, to confess frankly to myself all that which I find in myself, either infirmity or sin; and, if it be what concerns religion, also to confess the whole case to God, and implore needed help.

I'm delighted to be coming back to Formula 1 after a two-year break, and I'm grateful to Lotus Renault GP for offering me this opportunity.

There is no love where there is no will

I'm a driven perfectionist, very self-critical.

I didn’t know what I was supposed to say about that, so I just said, "Wow

Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.