I knew I was in England by the smell.

As women, we can't look old. We can't be fat. We're supposed to look like the 14-year-old models in Vogue, who are younger and younger and skinnier and skinnier, and they are air-brushed and contoured and Photoshopped.

Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage -- however often we are hurt as a result of it.

Art keeps one young, I think, because it keeps one perpetually a beginner, perpetually a child.

Courage is the only Magic worth having.

I believe that there's a force of life in the universe, and that when we're writing or making music or painting, we're likely to connect with that flow.

One writes not by will but by surrender.