Any experience can be transformed into something of value. Everything depends on the way you look at things. You cannot have the success without the failures.
I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
I will never censor myself to please anyone.
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.
Guess what, I'm the opposite of a role model!
The inexpressible depth of music, so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact that it reproduces all the emotions of our innermost being, but entirely without reality and remote from its pain… Music expresses only the quintessence of life and its events, never these themselves.
Beauty breeds beauty, truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read.
Supreme happiness consists in self-content; that we may gain this self-content, we are placed upon this earth and endowed with freedom.
Men are idol factories.