"…she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children."

“After 'Mosaic,' I think a lot of people didn't know what my next record was going to be. And that's what I love. I just love doing music because I'm not going to follow the patterns and formulas of Music Row.”

“for ... austere and gracious allegory, as for so much of its mysticism and its chivalry, its ardours and its endurances, the world is in debt to Spain.”

Source : Helen Waddell (2000). “The Wandering Scholars of the Middle Ages”, p.24, Courier Corporation

“Don’t ask a writer what he’s working on. It’s like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease.”

“There are no one dimensional people.”

Source : Source: youknowigotsoul.com

“Mother ... considered a press conference on a par with a visit to a cage full of cobras.”

“If I had children, I would be very selfish. I wouldn't be out doing things. But by not having kids, it makes me freer to travel the world and talk about things I feel are important.”

“There is no celebrity quite as powerful as the local, homegrown celebrity.”

Source : "'I've been a minor celebrity since I was 23 years old'". Interview with Jessica Hodgson, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2002.

“The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.”