Before I put another notch in my lipstick case, you better make sure you put me in my place.

You shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh.

With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.

Most chick singers say 'if you hurt me, I'll die'... I say, 'if you hurt me, I'll kick your ass.'

Love and pain become one in the same in the eyes of a wounded child.

Before I put another notch in my lipstick case, you better make sure you put me in my place.

'Hell is for Children' is amazing to do every night and 'Promises in the Dark' and 'Love Is a Battlefied,' of course, but my absolute favorite would be 'Heartbreaker.' It's the one that started everything, so it has a very special place in my heart. And it still rocks every night! It's so fun to do.

But the soul of touring and the heart of it is basically every day is like putting up a circus tent.

Everything changes all the time, and unfortunately, everyone who knows what you do by buying records only hears a small amount of what's going on in your life.

Everything must change, everything must move forward.

First of all, I'm pretty private about my personal life.

I don't care who's on the label, because I have a job to do.

I like Lady Gaga because I like that she pushes the envelope.

I love Katy Perry and Lady GaGa. I think GaGa's pushing the envelope every day and I really like that.

I love Katy Perry, she is a wonderful pop singer.

I never looked at people or singing as commodities.

I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.

If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make sure that never happens.

If you're retired, it's a blessing. You know, if you want to keep working and doing what you want to do, it's not a blessing as all - it's a curse.

It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.

People's lives change dramatically over such a long time period, and I think that if you're still vital, and you're still interested in writing and things like that, of course your music evolves and reflects where you are in your life.

There are so many young women coming up through the ranks. Adele is an amazing singer. Beyonce has great stage presence. She's just a beautiful woman. I love how everyone has just taken charge of their lives and careers.

When the first record came out, I'd go down to radio stations pretty much every day to get the record played, and I would walk in and they'd tell us how much they loved the record, but they weren't sure how much they could play it because they were already playing a girl.

When you have girl children they torture you!

When you have girl children, they torture you! If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make sure that never happens. They say, 'Mom, you didn't really wear that?' And I say, 'Yes, and pretty much everyone saw it.'

You don't want to trash what you've done; that's your history.

With the power of conviction there is no sacrifice.

Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.

Each of us must confront our own fears, must come face to face with them. How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives. To experience adventure or to be limited by the fear of it.

Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal.

Certainly, you envy the guys that have done all kinds of things, a variety of good scripts and good directors. Then again, having worked with Cassavetes has satisfied a big part of that.

It's so tough to get movies made in Ireland anymore. A whole generation of Irish filmmakers doesn't have the resources to get a movie made.

Even during the years of the Cold War, the intense confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States, we always avoided any direct clash between our civilians and, most certainly, between our military.

Most peoples are prisoners of other people's thoughts.

Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.

Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not.

The Democrats in the Senate adopted a resolution, an amendment, saying that there should be no Guantanamo detainees brought into this country. So, more and more, we're finding the American people on one side, the ACLU and the troglodytes from the New York Times on the other, where they belong.

It seems everything is so full of possibilities one can hardly take it all in.

My father's a character.

In private, I'm a hippie who follows Buddhism, does yoga, meditates and loves to dance wildly.

Life is a series of waves to be embraced and overcome.

The good thing about Cruz is we know who he is today, and we'll know exactly who he'll be in the White House.

For billionaires who cannot buy good press, there is the option of buying the press.

Greatest hits is easy because one has nothing to do - except that we both, Roger and I, felt that new songs should be there because I've been away for awhile.

It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life.

I probably had some impact, because everyone keeps telling me that I did. I like to feel like I'm coming out with something to try to make room for other young women to make their art.

To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry to survive in that environment.

I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry.

I'm not good at being static. I have to be climbing a mountain.