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.

Sometimes it seems like you and me against the world.

[On God:] She makes everything possible.

It's so nice to be insane, no one asks you to explain.

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

The most exciting thing about women's liberation is that this century will be able to take advantage of talent and potential genius that have been wasted because of taboos.

I did my own music videos, my own TV commercials.