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.

If you had told me when I was 18 that I wouldn't have made it until I was 29, I would have said, Forget it.

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

Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it.

[On God:] She makes everything possible.

There is no magic person out there, no perfect human being out there waiting for you.

A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists.