You just have to do what suits you, and it doesn't matter if you don't look like everybody else. Be you. That's our gift and we've got to celebrate that.

It took me ages to grow into being a woman, into being happy with it.

I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.

I've never had white teeth. To be honest, I've never been told to do any of those horrible things - get your teeth whitened or your nose straightened.

I look completely like my mum. She's very foreign, very Jewish.

On corsets: I said, You have got to be kidding. I am an ape and yet I am still expected to squeeze myself into one of those damn things.

It would be nice to really shed the corsets.