It takes a long time to get to be a diva. I mean, you gotta work at it.

I know that my fans want to know who I'm sleeping with, but it's really none of their business.

I don't have to sit around and wait for the next movie to come along, I can go out and sing.

All my gowns have trains on them. I make a train that goes on forever. I love long trains and then I stand there and twirl around and wrap myself up in it.

I have a lust for life.

I want to live in Paris for a couple of years. I'm dying to do the Josephine Baker story. I really want to be there and do it. It's certainly my intention to do it.

I learned something from that. If someone asks me something that I really don't want to do, I say no. I have to trust that. And I'm not afraid to talk money.