Twain: "I don't want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain."

Twain: "I'm more private than people realize. I'm not that easy to get to know."

Twain: "I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful."

Twain: "Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape."

Twain: "For a good 10 to 12 years, I was working non-stop and I wasn't really enjoying my success."

Twain: "Putting a stamp on things just helps you say, 'Hey, yesterday I was there, and today I'm here.' It's another step forward, and it feels like another turning point and an unleashing of creativity, and now I'm going to start focusing on the show and the production, the fun stuff that comes with it."

Twain: "Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do."

Twain: "My music must reflect whatever's going on in my mind, and my life needs to evolve for me to discover who it is I'm becoming."

Twain: "I want to be successful, but I don't really have what it takes to do it comfortably."

Twain: "Later in my life, I'm going to look back and smile and be very fulfilled. I know that if I don't give it my all right now I'll regret it later. That's very important to me, because I've worked all my life to have this."

Twain: "Life unravels the way it does, and it has an effect on you, but you have to take responsibility for dealing with it."

Twain: "I certainly don't think you need to be famous to want to leave a legacy, but when you are famous, it's even more likely that your child will get the wrong perspective on your life if you die prematurely."

Twain: "You learn to accept your own reality."

Twain: "I really feel like life will dictate itself. You should allow it to unfold as naturally as possible. Just go with the flow. When you're really desperate, you say a few prayers and hope for the best. That's the way I've always lived my life."

Twain: "I enjoyed working at McDonald's."

Twain: "All I ever intended was to make a living at what I do. Everything I've achieved since then is above and beyond."

Twain: "My fears and anxieties throughout my whole life have been slowly squeezing my voice."

Twain: "Horses calm me. I love being around them. They smell great, they are beautiful to look at, they are loving, demanding, temperamental, and they settle you."

Twain: "It's important to give it all you have while you have the chance."

Twain: "It was just like a dream. I could have ended up with an album that's not all that different from anything else coming out of Nashville. Mutt made the difference. He took these songs, my attitude, my creativity, and colored them in a way that is unique."

Twain: "I'm like everybody else."

Twain: "I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up."

Twain: "I'm always soul searching on a spiritual level."

Twain: "If my clothing does stand out, then I guess it's a compliment, but I just wear whatever feels comfortable."

Twain: "Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind."

Twain: "When you don't come from struggle, gaining appreciation is a quality that's difficult to come by."

Twain: "I spent a lot of my life holding back my cries, and I want to change that because it's not good for me."

Twain: "Sting I've seen a few times, and he really inspired me in the sense that he breaks the songs down a lot and will take a different approach. He'll take an acoustic approach to them; he'll rearrange them for the live stage."

Twain: "It's very hard to be honest with yourself when something's just not working."

Twain: "I have arm-wrestled here and there... guys seem to want to test my strength."

Twain: "One day, someone said to me, 'Do you want to go jump out of an airplane?' I felt like I had nothing to lose anymore, so I said, 'Why not?' And every day since then, I ask myself that question."

Twain: "I think it's important that readers know that not every celebrity is a freak."

Twain: "I feel like I'm on top of the world. Honestly, I feel like I've climbed a very giant mountain, and I'm just standing right on top with my arms wide open and breathing rarified air."

Twain: "I feel like in a way I'm starting over, with everything."