When you're fat, the world is divided into two groups - people who bug you and people who leave you alone. The funny thing is, supporters and saboteurs exist in either camp.

My forties are the best time I have ever gone through.

I've always sung in the shower. Now I make the stage a mental shower in order not to get too uptight and enjoy it.

There's no deodorant like success.

On Michael Jackson and child stardom: He had one of the worst childhoods ever. I think I had the second.

I've come through things that would have felled an ox. That fills me with optimism, not just for myself but for our particular species.

I wear perfume even when I’m alone