If I have to, I can do anything.

I'm a very private person, and when I leave the stage, I leave the stage.

I thought Erica Jongs Fear of Flying was one of the biggest pieces of crap that Ive ever read in my life.

I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend.

I always believed that I could make it or I would never have spent so many years trying to get here.

It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it.

I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and had the hand come under the stall with a paper and pen. That sort of thing anybody can live without.