"My earliest memory was going to my grandma's house, milking the cows, and collecting the eggs from the chickens."

"I'm a model as a job. I'm Gisele, the daughter of Valdir and Vania. I'm a woman; I am a model. When I go home and shut the door, that's it."

"I'm very nurturing. I come from a large family, and my parents were loving. But the most important thing for me as a mum is to keep my word. When I say no, I mean no."

"As consumers, we need to demand that companies sell us sustainable products that do not disregard and destroy our natural world."

"Yes, Brazil, like the whole world, stands to lose a lot in a climate-altered world. But it's also one of the major forces determining our future: It's the home of most of the Amazon rain forest."

"When I was a kid, I never even thought about fashion. I had one pair of jeans."

"I'm a twin, I'm a Cancer; I'm always taking care of other people. I've always been the fixer in the family, the responsible one."

"A woman can look powerful in a party, but when she arrives at home, all she wants is to feel comfortable."

"I thought I'd be wasting my time to go to commercial record companies and make demos for them, because don't forget, I was doing what I was doing and nobody understood what I was doing."

"I know many inferior guitarists who are very proud of the fact that they are as good as they are, when in fact they are only moderately good."

"As soon as the groupie finds out that you make errors in everyday life like everybody else does and that you are human, they turn on you and hate you."

"I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I heard an orchestra in my head."

"Early Bluegrass is my favorite kind of music, not to many people know that."

"But I say these things in an objective dispassionate manner because, you know, and I can't explain why, but being one of the greatest guitarists in the world simply is not very important to me."

"Regarding fame, fortune and Oregon I do wish I had more money."

"As for the source of the music, I believe it comes from the unconscious; that there is no such thing as talent."

"I love kids. It's amazing that I have the opportunity to hang out with my stepson all the time."

"I wouldn't call myself an actress, but I at the same time, if there is an opportunity... I believe in taking chances and living your life."

"I don't think anyone likes to see a picture of themselves in a tabloid, besides a couple people who I'm not going to mention. I'm definitely not one of those people."

"It's unfortunate that in an interview sometimes things can seem so black and white."

"I think as mothers we are all just trying our best."

"My intention in making a comment about the importance of breastfeeding has nothing to do with the law. It comes from my passion and beliefs about children."

"When you get to experience something that is outside of your reality, it changes you."

"I'm a very hyper person."

"You know, everyone says, 'Modeling and acting are so similar'... they say, 'It's so natural for models to become actresses because they use the camera.' I don't think of it in that way."

"I think it's great for my boys to have a girl in the house, just to understand at least a little bit about what makes a woman tick - not that I can certainly figure that out, because I can't."

"I'm a woman trying to balance family, work and friends like so many others out there."

"If I honour my needs first, I will be the best wife, the best mum, the best sister, the best friend. I have to come first, because then everyone benefits."

"To be a mother is a magical experience. The whole body is transformed by this."

"Children are like little angels - there's no way you can't love them."

"This is exactly how I would describe my work: 'I get there, I put on the clothes, I leave it on the hanger, and I go home.' And that's what I do."

"Everybody learns from traveling. I think we all do."

"I think sometimes you have high expectations for people because you have high expectations for yourself."

"I am a huge fan of big cotton underpants; they're comfortable. I wear them every day."

"I am not the first person to give birth naturally. Billions of other women have come before me and have done this - so why can't I do it?"

"There should be a worldwide law, in my opinion, that mothers should breastfeed their babies for six months."

"So I was really composing for full orchestra and of course I didn't know enough chords or harmonies yet but I came up with some interesting stuff."

"When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions."

"How can I be a folk? I'm from the suburbs you know."

"Well I was on the one hand, the more I played the guitar the more I began to really love the guitar and to love virtually any kind of music that anybody played well on guitar."

"So I learnt a few country western songs, I bought a chord book, and right away I started writing my own stuff, which nobody else did that, I don't know why."

"The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious."

"Well folks, that's about it for the show tonight."

"I was using them as teachers for technique but I was never trying to be a folk."

"Oh, 1962. The music scene was so bad that several of us decided to come out to Berkeley and take over the folk music scene here."

"They are too focused on the audience rather than on their own emotions, or they are too focused on technique or perhaps on both."

"Everyone has an hour in their day to go and do something for somebody else; I don't care how busy they are."

"This is our world and we need the same things to survive. If I'm making my life better and the circumstances of your life worse, that's terrible because in the end it will affect me, too."

"When I was a teenager, I had pimples - oh, God, every time someone looked at my face I thought they were looking at my pimples. I put mud on my face to dry them out, and it worked."

"I think a lot of people get pregnant and decide they can turn into garbage disposals."