If you race merely for the tributes from others, you will be at the mercy of their expectations.
I'm a very shy person towards my intimacy and private life.
I hope one day I will be able to be completely myself. Maybe I'll be wilder.
My father loved me and he wanted to work with me and he didn't care what people would say.
You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you?
I thought people wouldn't take me seriously if too much acting was involved in the singing. But now I love the idea of mixing everything together.
I love being a beginner. It can be a terrible feeling because you're ashamed of everything you do, but it's so exciting at the same time.
People have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy. It was sanity: and to be sane is more dramatic than to be mad.
History always happens to us and nothing ever stays the same.
When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it
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