For my own singing, I used to be attracted by the baroque, the flashier the better, but now I prefer a simpler, purer style.
There's no performance where I never have to think about setting up a phrase or making a technical adjustment while I'm performing.
I started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too.
We have a need to be religious, we need to worship, we need to build totems and shrines and icons, but nobody's sure in honor of what.
I've seen such things as you would not believe. I've seen motorbikes driven down hotel corridors - and had a go myself.
Measure yourself by your best moments, not by your worst. We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression.
When you think of Hollywood, you think of the land of opportunity. I always want to have the opportunity to do things conducive to my career.
The world is an unfair place because of bullying. A lot of parents loose their children because of bullying next time think twice before bullying someone
I like the spontaneity; I like to just get people together and hit 'record' so hopefully it has got a liveliness about it.
I usually enter the studio with a mix of songs that I've been listening to that are relevant to the sound I want to achieve.
I feel like the American years were my apprenticeship for doing a Bond movie.
When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself.
I guess the majority of people who want to ban certain musicians are the ones who are so proud of everything America stands for.
Here a tower shining bright Once stood gleaming in the night Where now There's just the rubble in the hole from "White City
I don't believe in email. I'm an old-fashioned girl. I prefer calling and hanging up.
I am flattered to have been the woman to have opened the door for female rockers to be accepted into the mainly male industry.
I'm one of those rare breed of rock n' rollers with a brain, probably because the brain's still intact.
The bass should be the note of the bass drum, and then you've got the engine of the band that everything else builds on. Everything else, the guitar, the keyboards, is a colour.
Sometimes I get a little drunk, sometimes I get a little out of it, sometimes I get out of tune onstage, but that's something that shouldn't be dissected.
I feel sexy when I get out of the tub - your skin is fresh and you've put up your hair without looking.
I've succeeded as far as I'm concerned - I don't feel that I have any cliffs I could fall over anytime soon.
