"I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver."

"I have insecurities of course, but I don't hang out with anyone who points them out to me."

"It's never been an issue for me - I don't want to go on a diet, I don't want to eat a Caesar salad with no dressing, why would I do that? I ain't got time for this, just be happy and don't be stupid. If I've got a boyfriend and he loves my body then I'm not worried."

"Even if I did have, you know, a 'Sports Illustrated' body, I'd still wear elegant clothes."

"I am not just a celebrity, I'm a human-rights advocate for the last 20 years."

"In those days a concert was a personal experience. I wanted to be as close as possible to the audience, and of course big stadiums didn't enable you to do that. It wasn't my style."

"An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words."

"Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand."