Quotes

I'm in this really cool place in my career, where the stage I'm on that night, whether it's the Paisley tour, the CMT tour, or a bar with 10 people in it, it is the most important show I've ever played in my life. I go to the ends of my imagination to do something that's unforgettable every night.

I can only hope to be 10 percent of the mom mine was to me. She encouraged me to be confident and enjoy life. That's what I want for my son.

I am a relationship girl. That's kind of just how I'm made... When you're in my life, it's actually very contained.

If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels.

I think in life we want to challenge ourselves.

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

I had called her up a couple of weeks before then, because I had heard this vicious rumour that she did not like the movie. It was very upsetting for me. I am very sensitive to that, because I am portraying her life and did not want her to be unhappy.

I've always been very aware of balance and, even before I had a child, my life always takes priority to my work.

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.

There is no private domain of a person's life that is not political, and there is no political issue that is not ultimately personal.

Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy; our existence challenges its life.

In April of 1978 I was asked to join an all-girl band that was just taking shape, The Go-Go's. It was one of those moments in my life - and there were many - when I just blurted out 'Yes!'

I've lived kind of a sad-happy life. It's like, every time you take a breath, it's heavy, but on the outside you're like a clown family traveling along the universe.

My whole world up until punk was this total repressed Catholic lifestyle.

I'm only speaking for myself, but having a kid has put everything else in my life in perspective.

Being in a band is being punk, no matter what. You have to dedicate your life to it.

Competing in show jumping is a school of life. And it's one of the few Olympic sports where men and women are equal.

It is natural for me not to explain my private life or to answer any questions about my private life.

Riding clothes are ageless and timeless, and I love to incorporate that comfort and elegance in my life.

They used to but not any more. You kind of get used to it - you accept it is part of your job - if you're famous and you want this life, you have got to accept this part of it as well.

I'm quite happy with the way my life is.

I don't ever want to be famous. I never want to live that life. I genuinely hate the fact that I would be stopped for a picture or an autograph all the time.

I turned the Gloucester Christmas lights on and our local Newent lights on, so everyone recognises me now. It is a completely different life for me.