Sensitive, humbug. Everybody thinks I'm sensitive. Wait until they hear my new album.

The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own.

Sensitive, humbug. Everybody thinks I'm sensitive. Wait until they hear my new album.

I went to London and performed in Eric Clapton's concert at the Royal Albert Hall. I'll work with him any time he asks me.

There is a downside to having one of the biggest-selling albums ever.

Eric Clapton is my dream guitarist.

I didn't want to be an artist.

In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I guess I've been oblivious.

I listen to both oldies and contemporary stations. I enjoy listening to current stuff because there's an energy to it that's inspiring.

I'm a songwriter first.

I think Madonna has a great deal of intelligence and capability. I have a lot of respect for her. She's taken her career and maximized it with intelligence and creativity.

All I needed to do was sing with conviction, speaking my truth from the heart, honestly and straightforwardly, and to offer my words, ideas and music to the audience as if it were one collective friend that I'd known for a very long time.

Everybody understands friendship, and friendship is different than love - it's a different kind of love. Friendship has more freedom, more latitude. You don't expect your friend to be as you think your friend should be; you expect your friend just to love you as a friend.

Had my grandparents not emigrated when they did, I might have been born Jewish in Eastern Europe during World War II, or I might not have been born at all. Instead, I was born in 1942 in New York City.

I just sort of try to be a good person; try to write music that lifts people and makes me feel good to sing.

I only wanted to be a songwriter. I never wanted to be a singer. And I never wanted to be famous.

I used to hate the sound of my voice.

I was taking singing lessons, and they'd say, 'Your voice is too hoarse. You have to do more exercises.'

I write heavily under the influence of James Taylor.

I've had a remarkable life. I seem to be in such good places at the right time. You know, if you were to ask me to sum my life up in one word, gratitude.

My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue, an everlasting vision of the ever changing view.

My name at birth was Carol Joan Klein. It would take me five decades to appreciate my surname and the history that came with it. Along the way, I would add an 'e' to Carol and acquire several more surnames.

My one area of vulnerability was I didn't know how to have a healthy relationship with a man.

My parents always told me I could be anything I wanted to be.

Sometimes I get a lyric, and the lyric, you know, comes off the page, and goes into my brain and comes out with a melody. Other times, I may create a melody first.

When I wake up every morning, I smile and say, 'Thank you.' Because out of my window I can see the mountains, then go hiking with my dog and share her bounding joy in the world.

When I was younger, I was kind of fearless. I think it takes more courage to do things when you know more. I was completely naive, and I was like, 'Why can't I do anything I want to do?'

Youve got to get up every morning with a smile on your face And show the world all the love in your heart Then people gonna treat you better Youre gonna find yes you will That youre beautiful as you feel.

I'm like a plant, I reach for the sun.

I'm never uncomfortable with anything I do. I never feel like I regret anything. I love music, you know? All kinds of music.

You don't have to be a good musician if you've got certain computer skills.

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.

I take a little bit from everybody and add that to my life to make me, me. I wanna be nobody else but Future. When you look at me, I want you to say, 'Future.' The way I talk, the way I dress, there's nobody in the world but me.

Every part I've done has been for one reason or another-money, or the part, or the director, or the location. I'd like to get one thing that's all of those combined.

Its no use closing the barn door after the horse is gone.

Similarity in character not personality means only compatibility between two individuals.

Ordering is difficult. It's like arranging pieces of music in a concert: What do you put first? What do you put after the intermission? I want the reader to be sort of surprised, to come to each story freshly.

I'm not a cheater. I've never cheated in my life.

Of course I have had a boyfriend. However, I was way too busy while taking care of myself, and I could not show a better care for my boyfriend. I found myself getting more and more egocentric, and I was not a good girlfriend at all.

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

My first job was being a page at 'The Tonight Show.' I saw Jack Paar come out one night and sit on the edge of his desk and talk about what he'd done the night before. I thought, 'I can do that!' I used to do that on a street corner in the Bronx with all my buddies.

In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.

A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer.

The number who actually consented to the Constitution of the United States, at the first, was very small. Considered as the act of the whole people, the adoption of the Constitution was the merest farce and imposture, binding upon nobody.

While loyalists and defectors overall said John Smith did a better job of standing up for Labour's values, they put Blair ahead on representing the whole country, appealing beyond traditional Labour voters and offering strong, competent leadership; switchers to the Tories gave him a clear lead in all categories.

Some women tend to sell themselves short. I've only ever had women say to me, 'I could never argue in the Supreme Court!' Do you think a man has ever said that to me? Of course not.

My big dream was to work as a photographer for 'National Geographic.'

I didn't realize Metallica was as big as they were. I just thought it was my buddy Kirk's band - we went to high school together. I wasn't really following metal.

I might be too emotional to be a manager. You love your players, don't you? And I'm not sure I could leave them out. I know how it feels.