Getting angry doesn't solve anything.

I've had happy moments in my life, but I don't think that happiness-- being happy-- is a perpetual state that anyone can be in. Life isn't that way.

What I've learned in the past 12 years of recording (I made my first CD at 12) is how important it is to find one's authentic voice.

As an unmarried woman, I was thought to be a danger.

The pearl is the queen of gems and the gem of queens.

I hated Hollywood. It’s a town without pity. Only success counts. I know of no other place in the world where so many people suffer from nervous breakdowns, where there are so many alcoholics, neurotics and so much unhappiness.

For a woman, forty is torture, the end.