I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.

I can ask for cigarettes in every language

I'm afraid of Americans; I'm afraid of the world; I'm afraid I can't help it.

I think I quite desperately wanted to have that kind of special companionship [like marriage ] . . . a special relationship, yet I hid from it for many, many years and pretended to be cynical about it.

I want people to hear musicians like Joe Cuba. He has done things to whole masses of Puerto Rican people. The music is fantastic and important.

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

I'm a thinker not a talker.