“I've learned that success comes in a very prickly package. Whether you choose to accept it or not is up to you.”

“With the success of the last three or so years, when a lot of people start treating you differently, there's a danger that you may start to think of yourself differently. You rely on your friends to say, 'Hey, wake up!'”

“The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.”

“Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.”

“It's hard for children's authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people are so eager to read anything by her, but it took Judy Blume three or four tries before she had a success.”

“I was trying to uphold what I thought feminism was as best I could by supporting women, by trying to create an opportunity to get women to get together, play music together and celebrate the fact that we are having great success making music on our own and together.”

“It's nice, being brought up with no money at all. It's just not how I measure success, so that makes it a bunch easier.”

“I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.”

“Success is the child of audacity.”