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

I always thought my days spent in darkness [as a child she had cataracts and was unable to see for nearly four years] gave me a very special sensitivity. Much later, when I really wanted to hear, really 'see' a song, I'd close my eyes, and when I wanted to bring it out of the very depths of myself, out of my guts, out of my belly, when the song had to come from far away, I'd close my eyes.

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

For me, sleeping is a waste of time. I'm afraid to sleep. It's a form of death.

As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.

I'm the only one who still believes in Santa Claus!

People say that I could sing the phone book and make it sound good.