I am sort of pessimistic in that way where I often think the worst of people.

I am suspicious of career engineers, people that plan it out every step of the way.

I introspect on how I am perceived by other people. It's been this way since my childhood.

I am a woman, I am a minority person, and I speak in a very plain way. And I think that reaches people.

How do I tell people who I am? Not being a writer, the only way is to sing songs that reflect my opinions.

Knock on wood, my groupies tend to be very artistic, creative people - sometimes way more creative than I am.

I'm naturally guarded because of the way I was brought up. But I understand people are interested in who I am.

I wanted to get people to feel where I'm coming from and connect with people who are feeling the same way that I am.

I am pro-technology that improves the lives of many people in any way possible, and I think the blockchain has the potential to do that.

I am a frustrated saxophone player. If I could, I would abandon all of my books, and I would trade it all if I could play the way people I admire play.

We have people working for us full-time because they were forced to retire at 65. I know that I never want to stop working, and I am glad that I can offer positions to others who feel the same way.

I don't like intellectuals, or, at least, people who call themselves that way, because I am under the impression that there is always something condescending in their demeanour, and I don't like condescending people.

Actually, no, but I am close to the people who are working on Chicken Little, and I'm very close to the people over at Pixar. I mean, as far as stories are concerned, almost everything we have could be told that way.

There are times I wish I was more conventional. I would get a husband and a baby and a big SUV in the 'burbs and be happy. But forging my own way - my career, my relationships with wonderful but troubled people - that's who I am.

When somewhat at a distance, I cannot hear the high tones of instruments, voices. In speaking, it is not surprising that there are people who have never noticed it, for as a rule I am absent-minded, and they account for it in that way.

I am personally convinced - and I think the Greek people share this belief in a fundamental way - that we can achieve fiscal consolidation more effectively and we can restore competitiveness in a more fundamental and permanent way within the euro area than outside.

I think a lot of people are getting bored of audition-based shows, along the lines of 'Strictly Come Dancing' or 'The X-Factor'. I know I am. But 'Dragons' Den' will have a longer shelf-life than all of them because it's fundamentally real in a way that other shows aren't.

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