We think that this is just our world and we don't know what other people are thinking. Music actually is a phenomenal connector in that respect. It's….

In memory, you can access something from the past, anything that you've experienced that you remember - it's there. Now, you might have a memento of ….

I will go out of my way to avoid the shopping crowds and the extreme consumerism - I hate all that..

The world is a heartbreaking place, without any question..

I am fascinated by history and particularly the Victorian era..

I'm not intensely private - I talk a great deal about my life and my work - I just don't play the game to excess..

I want people to understand me as a person with views, not just performing songs..

As a mother, you have that impulse to wish that no child should ever be hurt, or abused, or go hungry, or not have opportunities in life..

I don't think feminism is about the exclusion of men but their inclusion... we must face and address those issues, especially to include younger men ….

Imagine living in abject poverty and not knowing anything other than that for generations. Or alternatively, imagine being born into a really wealthy….

If people like your music, you can't guarantee they're going to love you..

The dynamic between two individuals starts off with everything warm and nice and fabulous and good. Working and living together can serve you quite w….

I'm not a risk taker physically. I just have no interest in swinging myself off a mountaintop or parachute gliding or skiing down a totally vertical ….

Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death..

There is a big difference between what I do onstage and what I do in my private life. I don't put my living room on magazine pages..

Fundamentally, we are all in the same place: we're born, we live, and we're going to die. In between, we'll have joy and we'll have sadness..

Desire, despair, desire. So many monsters..

More than anything, I think everything about appearance is illusory. People see you, and they think they understand what you're projecting, but actua….

I wouldn't have known when I was a teenager that when I was coming up to being a sixty-year-old woman that I'd be making music, I'd be recording musi….

You become really ugly when you become very superficial and self-obsessed..

I'm very intrigued that in this culture of reality television and celebrity - which is an enormous industry and generates billions and billions of do….