"I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite."

"White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white."

"A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition."

"Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame."

"One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error."

"The process of assessing how you feel about the things you own, identifying those that have fulfilled their purpose, expressing your gratitude, and bidding them farewell, is really about examining your inner self."

"Being famous is having the power to really implement positive change in the world, and it gives you the power to do what you want. I'm really grateful for it because I can play music and people will listen."

"I temporarily lost my hope in love, and it was temporary, thank goodness."