Brenda Ueland

Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands.

Even if I knew for certain that I would never have anything published again, and would never make another cent from it, I would still keep on writing.

All children have creative power.

I like to think about stringing songs together like a string of pearls, or a string of beads, but ultimately it has to be stuff that really works with the band, and gives a spin to the older material.

I'd love to own Newstead, partly because it belonged to Lord Byron, but also to try to uncover what dark secrets really lie beneath.

Just as young people absorb all kinds of messages from the media, young girls learn what it means to be a woman by watching the older women in their lives.