I'm forbidden fruit. Once you go to certain households, mommy doesn't want you to see that dirty man who sticks his tongue out and spits out blood and all that stuff.

Fame is important, but to be rich is more important.

If you want to welcome me with open arms, I'm afraid you're also going to have to welcome me with open legs.

My background is full of pain. My mother was in a Nazi concentration camp and our whole family was killed off. Then early on your father leaves and all you've got is your mother, and I was an only child. Then you come to a new country and I can't speak English.

Your date will not be impressed by you throwing up on her brand-new shoes, as you spout poetic babblings that are meaningful only to you.

I don't know whether you [musician] can be all things to everybody, which is why there are different kinds of music.

You always start off with passion and the people that have it.