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 tell people your ambitions, they usually laugh at you. When I told my girlfriends when I was 12 that I was going to Hollywood, they all laughed. And here I am!

It took me a year to really learn the American lingo. I really feel for people who are coming here and don't speak English at all. It must be hell.

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

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

[On God:] She makes everything possible.

Three-quarters of the world’s population doesn’t have enough to eat!