Come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me and has failed.
I always put on a brave face when I was the most terrified, the most trapped and out of control.
I will never censor myself to please anyone.
I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.
I don't listen to music, actually. Obviously I go to clubs; I stand in elevators; a lot of my friends are musicians; I hear music all the time. But I don't have my own collection of music.
Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.
There are certain ways of being that people don't find acceptable or very pleasant in regular life, but you go out on stage and do pretty much the same thing and they find it spellbinding.
And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.
I'm happy if my book makes you want to kiss your family. . . if we can reconcile with each other no matter where we are on the globe.
Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the nightingale is still a bird; then it rises above its class and seems to suggest to every winged creature what singing is truly like.