You don't have to prove to me you're beautiful to strangers, I've got loving eyes of my own.

I'm a little old-fashioned - I like it when the man opens the door and I like it when a man pays for me. I particularly like it when they pay for dinner or whatever, because I've pretty much done the opposite, but for the exception of James [Taylor], where we split everything down the middle. I've been the larger money earner in practically all of my relationships. There's equality and there are positive differences, which are complimentary.

I've always thought of myself as being a warrior. When you actually have a battle, it's better than when you don't know who to fight.

I used the physical scar of my breast cancer operation, the scar that I have across my chest as a metaphor for all kinds of scars.

You don't have to prove to me you're beautiful to strangers, I've got loving eyes of my own.

We need role models who are going to break the mold.

One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it in an objective way, so that it doesn't cause me any serious pain by staying inside.