The inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling.

[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.

I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening... that's the art.

Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade.

My mother would only let us go to the musicals.

There are bugs and there are the pigeons and other predators, but you shouldn't be afraid of them, because this is how nature works.

I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.