“I’m happy when things are just kind of calm.”

I believe in free love and that’s just how I feel.

People have offered me opportunities in exchange for sleeping with them. But it’s not 1952 anymore.

When you get real big baby, remember that little old cowgirl. Waiting for you back in that red river valley.

I pretend I’m not hurt, I walk about the world like I’m having fun.

No matter how many people give me advice, I am going to do what my heart tells me to do.

I know now that it’s really important to feel beautiful. There is a power to that.

Bad things happen everyday but you’re not going to be any happier thinking about them.

Find someone who has a life that you want and figure out how they got it. Read books, pick your role models wisely. Find out what they did and do it.

Initially the fashion world was more interested in me than the music world, which was strange when I first started singing.

Do you know how expensive it is to look this cheap?

Doing what you love is freedom. Loving what you do is happiness.

Who belonged to no one, who belonged to everyone. Who had nothing, who wanted everything.

Nobody gets to tell your story.

I’ve been really blessed to have a lot of romance in my life. It’s like my last luxury.

Einstein said ‘your imagination is more important than intelligence,’ and I have a very, very big imagination.

I was a mess. I totally wanted to kill myself every day.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.

Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.

Keep calm and carry on.

I function better when things are going badly than when they’re as smooth as whipped cream.

Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.