"Knowing yourself as the awareness behind the voice is freedom."

“A lot of girls think they have flaws that really aren't flaws. I've never met a girl who was just so secure about everything.”

“While the hero journeys for external fame, fortune, and power, the heroine tries to regain her lost creative spirit… Once she hears the cries of this lost part of herself needing rescue, her journey truly begins.”

Source : Valerie Estelle Frankel (2010). “From Girl to Goddess: The Heroine's Journey through Myth and Legend”, p.20, McFarland

“Maybe I'm naive, but I subscribe to the idea that nobody is actually making strategic decisions about their career. Trying to do that would be like playing three-card monte on Canal Street.”

“I'd say my greatest fear is fear itself.”

“I don't use sex to sell records, obviously, but I'd be lying if I said that I don't feel like I have to make an effort to look good when I go out onstage, to wear something pretty”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“The illusion of magic is an idealistic fantasy; it exists only in the imagination of the spectator.”

“My tendency is to be very experimental.”

“Motherhood has relaxed me in many ways. You learn to deal with crisis. I've become a juggler, I suppose. It's all a big circus, and nobody who knows me believes I can manage, but sometimes I do.”