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

If I have to, I can do anything.

Hindsight is wonderful. It's always very easy to second guess after the fact.

To this day I get mail from women who say, I went to law school because of your song. But I would hate to think out of the wide spectrum of things I have done in my career, that's all I would be remembered for.

I am woman, hear me roar.

You're not going to find a man whose socks don't get dirty or who doesn't snore.