"I did my last year of high school as an exchange student. I lived south of the Atlanta, in a quite strange place - real southern. I formed my first band that year and we just started playing my songs live. It was way in for me to get to know people and to really feel at home there - through music."

“Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our most prominent and influential people.”

“Expression, sentiment, truth to nature, are essential: but all those are not enough. I never care to look at a picture again, if it be ill composed; and if well composed I can hardly leave off looking at it.”

“Society needs both justice and compassion, a head and a heart, if it is to be civilised.”

“Every time somebody calls me out or tries to start something, it's motivation.”

“A disease of the mind, [whose] germ is the idea that one may learn that which is valuable, or in any way acquire virtue, by the process of being shown things.”

“I am a witch, by which I mean that I am somebody who believes that the earth is sacred, and that women and women's bodies are one expression of that sacred being.”

Source : "Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion". Book by Carol P. Christ and Judith Plaskow, 1979.

“I love performing. It's a phenomenal getaway. If you want to really let out everything you feel, that's the time to do it.”

“I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal.”

Source : "Gold Medal Figure Skater". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 17, 2000.