The best revenge is the massive success.

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women.

With few exceptions, every major pop singer in the US during her generation has been touched in some way by her genius. It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me. Lady Day is unquestionably the most important influence on American popular singing in the last twenty years.

Rock 'n roll smells phony and false. It is sung, played and written for the most part by cretinous goons and by means of its almost imbecilic reiteration and sly, lewd, in plain fact, dirty lyrics ... manages to be the martial music of every side-burned delinquent on the face of the earth.

Oh, I just wish someone would try to hurt you so I could kill them for you.

The only male singer who I've seen besides myself and who's better than me--that is Michael Jackson.

Take a deep breath, pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again.