Because I'm just an ordinary person that did some extraordinary things.

But I like to know that someone is stronger than I am. I want to be able to know that if I get tired, somebody is there to hold up the fort. I like knowing that I can't pick a refrigerator alone. God did not make me strong enough to do that.

I want a private life, I truly do. I'm not just pretending to want one like lots of celebrities.

I don't care if I'm beautiful; I don't care what I am on the outside. It isn't about the outside.

Because I'm just an ordinary person that did some extraordinary things.

I don't keep a press agent because I think people need to have a break from you.

It would be nice if you have a hit. But I don't think it's necessary to continue with my career at this point.

A friend of mine called and said they're interested in having you do a song for the new Pokemon. All my kids are grown up, so I'd heard of it, but I didn't really know what it was.

When you see these people that are in the public eye all the time, it must get tiring.

I'm ready to work and if it happens, it happens. If it doesn't, it's fine.

I am sensual and very physical. I'm very erotic. But my sexuality exists on a sort of a fantasy level.

Let's say that, in reality, I'm basically very shy when it comes to men.

I don't really try to predict what can and will happen with things. Sometimes you think something's gonna be a huge success, and it isn't. And sometimes you pay no attention to something whatsoever, and God just makes it into everything.

When I'm not working I try to stay out of the public eye as much as possible.

But I think that I'm just a normal girl, you know.

My life was changed in one breath from God.

Nobody wants you to stop, obviously because you're a moneymaking machine. But you have to make the decision and you have to move forward. So I took time off to have babies and do all that.

I haven't really been recording in the last several years. I haven't wanted to. And even though I had to deal with Sony and now I'm on Universal again, I will probably put out a new record soon.

And I mean, I'm established. So I'm not worried about having a hit at this point in my career.

God had to create disco music so I could be born and be successful.

Well, I'll say I have an incredible ability to fantasize - I really do. I don't have to have things tangible to be able to see them, and therefore I enjoy so many things, because they're in my mind.

And no, having the hits is just more work.

If you've never been to one of my concerts. I want you to know that it is OK to scream and yell.

When we made Love to Love You Baby we knew it was somewhat innovative but nobody knew people would jump on that bandwagon and all of a sudden the whole world would be going disco.

In this modern world it is easy to be complex but difficult to be simple. At least try to keep your mind simple.

Our heritage and ideals our code and standards the things we live by and teach our children are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

Keep your sales pipeline full by prospecting continuously. Always have more people to see than you have time to see them.

I also found out that I liked biochemical research and that I could do it.

You always gain by giving love.

I'm direct, I'm unpretentious and I'm pretty dogged, and I hope I've got a capacity to laugh at myself and not take myself too seriously.

In Scotland, there is no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes.

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.

Some unifying principles bind all Christians: that God became a man and died for our sins, and that without that sacrifice, all of us would be doomed.

Id be foolish not to take some of these opportunities that are coming my way.

For me, 'The Kite Runner' became about a guy who's emotionally shut down because he hasn't confronted his past.

The telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent.

Well, success does not mean doing well.

I need to rein myself in sometimes.

Video games and YouTube.com are creatively booming, even though Web design, as demonstrated by the ugly clutter of most major news sites, is in the pits.

I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it. Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide.

I just think that probably when somebody calls themselves 'born again' and kind of goes out there in a pretty radically zealous way, professes their glee about that, it can creep people out.

The world record will come to me when I run the world record race. I'm just trying to perfect my race. I'm looking for perfection.

I really appreciate the many neighbourhoods of Berkeley. There is still the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker. And it has the University of California, which is the greatest gift, to my mind, to be close to it. It keeps the place alive.

I've never been out with any of the cast of Coronation Street. We're all very close friends so it's very much a professional attitude.

No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.

I put my thoughts in a book, which must mean I don't want anyone to read them.

Unilateral preemption should not in any way be the model for how we conduct international relations.