My evening really begins when I take a long, hot bath. I light a candle, and I turn on the news and try to catch up. It's when I can breathe from the day to the night, and that means a lot to me.
The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.
It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.
I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all.
I'm a participant in the doctrine of constructive ambiguity.
I wanted to try marathon running, but something always came up: I had a baby and a C-section or I got injured or I just didn't think I could run that far.
For me, it works to my advantage when people think I'm stupid. If somebody who disdains you or wants to control you underestimates you, you can play their game right back.
When I lost my record deal, and my phone wasn't ringing, I realized that I had to reassess who Vesta was and figure out what was going wrong. I knew it wasn't my singing ability. So it had to be that I was expendable because I didn't have the right l...
According to my grandmother, I started singing as soon as I began talking. I always wanted to be an entertainer. I knew that from the start.
Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.
To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily.
When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.
I endeavor to make the most of everything.
By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?
If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony.
In London it's easy not to be the focus of attention, especially when Sting lives in the house just behind you.
I have stayed true to that first idea that people can have a day in their lives that is very important and if they can reconnect with that day, reconnect with the people they were then, they can suddenly revive their emotions.
I haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place, a bit like an unmarked level crossing.
Everything we do, even the slightest thing we do, can have a ripple effect and repercussions that emanate. If you throw a pebble into the water on one side of the ocean, it can create a tidal wave on the other side.
It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
