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

Use your faults, use your defects; then you're going to be a star.

I don't lie; I improve on my life.

I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.

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 want to die young. I think it's awful to get old, and sickness is ugly.

My conservatory is in the streets. My intelligence is instinct.