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

All I've done all my life is disobey.

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.

Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.

If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.

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

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