How you looked was not important. It was what you did and how you did it. Decide to do it and then do it the best way you can.

When I heard his first songs, Dylan was answering certain questions that I had all my life been asking myself.

I left the table where there were important people and had lunch with my husband and a few friends. The reception was organised in my honour, so it was rather amusing.

When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.

Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.

My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me.

Wherever you turn, there is always something wrong with the politicians. They have everything they need to save the world, and they don't save it.

It's nice to look good, but the most important thing is to be you.

I thought it was respectful to each country to sing in their language.

When you want something very dearly, you make the time.

With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.

The secret is to cook the aubergines the day before and let them dry of all the oil they drank in cooking. When you cook aubergine, they eat a lot of oil. It can be very heavy.

One of the most wonderful memories in my life was when I sang at the Opera House in Sydney. I will never forget that. It is one of the most beautiful Houses I have ever sung in my life.

If I was sad or afraid, I would sit in a corner and sing. If I was happy I would jump into the middle of the room and sing. It was how I expressed my emotions.

There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

When I was singing, everybody liked me.

I like to cook, but mostly Greek. When I am confused or tired, I think about what I can cook. It takes you away from everything, as you are thinking only of your dish.

For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.

How you looked was not important. It was what you did and how you did it. Decide to do it and then do it the best way you can.

I think sometimes you are born with a song.

The Berlin Wall go down, that was the most wonderful thing that could happen, absolutely. I celebrated with everybody in Berlin that day when the Wall was down.

I was born a singer. I need to do that.

When I started to work with UNICEF, it was a new way of giving some love and care to the world.

The idea of the European community is never face a war again.

My energy to sing, I get it from my singing. Singing was not a reason to make a living. This is the only thing I wanted to do.

UNICEF has made the most rewarding thing that I have ever done in my life.

Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.

I grew up thinking that singing was my security.

If you're a kid who is always on the outside hoping to be on the inside, you're watching a lot. You're trying to figure out how to become a normal person in a society that considers you weird.

A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation explanation showing observation and supervision.

I've thought that 'Soulmate' in the 'Night World' series would make a really nice TV-movie or just a movie.

It's quite a feeling to finish something you have been 10 years beholden to and to have a clean slate.

And if this House is to be scared, by whatever influences, from its duty, to receive and hear the petitions of the People, then I shall send my voice beyond the walls of this Capitol for redress.

I don't care what your politics are, I would wager that if you asked any American woman which administration would she have most liked to work for as social secretary, she would pick Jacqueline Kennedy's White House as the place to be.

I try to be happy, but I'm never happy. I don't believe in happiness. I was happy yesterday, but today and tomorrow is a different story.

Good music is good music, but it has to be good.

When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.

A few days after Bloody Sunday, there was demonstration in more than 80 American cities. People were demanding that the government act.

Sometimes, when my wife and I were going out to dinner, I would take my laptop with me and work in the car, so as to take advantage of the half hour going and coming.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.

Most people try to avoid cliches. It's my ambition in life to try to get 'em right!

Love couldnt be moved by circumstance poor choices or even blatant liesskewed and damaged yes but the heart couldnt deny what it wanted most once the desire was planted. Whether in bliss or affliction love owned you all the same.

But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist; the good are ever too luke-warm.

A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate from the palate to the fingers end.

To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.

Not only was I the only black kid and the only poor kid, but my parents were transcendental meditation devotees, and I live in an ashram for a good portion of my childhood.