I used to take hostages in my relationships and not let people be independent. It always ended in disaster, because you take away people's identity and they end up full of resentment.

On a street of right and wrong in every inch of sadness, rocks and tanks go hand in hand with madness.

What record companies do these days is drain the blood dry of an album, take six singles off it, and harm the longevity of artists' careers by doing it.

I was just genuinely shy. I'd always been a shy kid.

I didn't really know what I was until I came to America and I had sex [for the first time] in San Francisco in 1970. It was with someone of my own sex.

Sweet freedom whispered in my ear, you're a butterfly, and butterflies are free to fly, fly away, high-away, bye-bye.

You can call me a fat, balding, talentless old queen who can't sing, but you can't tell lies about me.