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

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.

People have an obligation to live up to their potential.

There's the media-driven universe, in which the public perceives you in a superficial way. Then there's the universe that you actually inhabit, where you have to get up even if you didn't sleep so well, and you feel like crap and your face is swollen.

I'm working my way toward divinity.

For days on end, I would hardly speak, and when I did only the vilest sort of gibberish would spout forth. I became morose and fat. Unapproachable, except when eating - and then only by waiters.

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.