All men are created equal and all women are created equal as well, but [equality] seems much clearer when it comes to race issues. In the realms of man/woman, man/man, woman/woman love, it seems all up for grabs now. We are exploring so much, but I think we gotta go for the fight for all equality first.

I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say.

Being in this business for as long as I've been in it, it's sort of like living in a town or a city before the war and then after the war and then during the reconstruction and then during the time that it sprawls out to the malls.

There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her.

You don't have to prove to me you're beautiful to strangers, I've got loving eyes of my own.

Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four.

I took it to heart that in order to be a good person; you never said anything mean about anybody.