I really don't think of myself as a singer. I think of myself as an entertainer, and the best place I do it is onstage.

Sometimes you have to show a little skin. This reminds boys of being naked, and then they think of sex.

I'm not a role model, nor have I ever tried to be a role model. The only thing about me as a role model is I've managed to stay here and be working and survive. For 40 years.

I always wanted to be famous because I thought that if I couldn't be good [at something], I'd be famous. I was never really good. I was just something different and I got to be famous for being different.

Until mankind is peaceful enough not to have violence on the news, there's no point in taking it out of shows that need it for entertainment value.

If you're waiting for someone to believe in you, you'll be waiting forever. You must believe in yourself.

One thing about prejudices -- once you break one of them, you're screwed, because then they all have got to go.