Performers and their public should never meet. Once the curtain comes down, the performer should fly away like a magician's dove.

To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.

To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing.

Drugs are a carnival in hell.

I've always wanted to sing, just as I've always known that one day I would have my own niche in the annals of song. It was a feeling I had.

Americans want beauties, not me. I’m not the Parisian bombshell they expected. Can you see me as a chorus girl? Where’s my feather up the ass? They think I’m sad, they’re dumb. I don’t connect to them

I can die now. I've lived twice.