Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.

Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.

Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?

It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned how to make feeling work for me... I don't know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what 'soul' is all about.

My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.

I love being a star more than life itself.

Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz - My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.