As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.

When you reach the top, you should remember to send the elevator back down for the others.

I always thought my days spent in darkness [as a child she had cataracts and was unable to see for nearly four years] gave me a very special sensitivity. Much later, when I really wanted to hear, really 'see' a song, I'd close my eyes, and when I wanted to bring it out of the very depths of myself, out of my guts, out of my belly, when the song had to come from far away, I'd close my eyes.

I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.

I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.

Death is the beginning of something.

Use your faults, use your defects; then you're going to be a star.