I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There's no tricks. It's honesty with big melodies.
I used to believe that the world is a journey that takes you on a mystical ride across time. I don't anymore.
I am a firm believer that if you can explain it to a kid, you're on the right track.
Where I once believed people were there to be used, I started thinking of other people first.
I am a strong believer that intellectual property rights need to be protected.
I know everything about candy. Would you believe I even know where to find gumballs in the middle of Africa?
I think people believe I'm some kind of evil dictator sometimes. But I don't much care about that.
Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth.
In 1975, when my students were kidnapped by rebels, I was accused of hiding instead of trying to save them, and of not giving enough money for their ransom. I wasn't believed.
When I go to a concert, I can't believe that people pay lots of money to see a band that they obviously like and then they dance the whole time.
I don't believe there's any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force.
I just happen to believe that what's at stake in the early child's development is so vital and so important, and I think it is founded in the main, in the broad cultural sense, on the relationship between the mother and child.
Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience.
I can't believe I got a major-label record deal. My music was quirky, and my voice was so odd and high and girlish, it was like a weird novelty act.
I believe that music is a spiritual language. My everyday self is pretty mundane and boring, but when I'm making music it allows for me to communicate a kind of transcendence that I can't communicate otherwise.
In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris, France, that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president.
I voted for the Defense of Marriage Act but I do not believe we should institutionalize a form of discrimination against any minority by amending the Constitution.
According to the reality, I assume that we are not going to meet again. Yet, I do believe that we have met for a reason
I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.
I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.
I'm a realist, not a sugar coater. I believe in always letting people know what their obstacles are. And at the end of the day, I just want to be respected for my hard work.
