I know I'm not exactly a bombshell, but one has to make the best of what one's got.

If I weren't reasonably placid, I don't think I could cope with this sort of life. To be a diva, you've got to be absolutely like a horse.

The world we are born into-this complicated, difficult, hauntingly touching world-is the one whole thing. It is the world we awaken in, and awaken to.

I'm somewhat horrified because I don't think the young people today even know what history is. Some of them don't even study History at school anymore or Geography and they don't know where one place is from another.

You can listen to what everybody says, but the fact remains that you've got to get out there and do the thing yourself.

I don't sing for anybody. I wouldn't sing for the Queen dear.

One is just given a talent, and it's one's duty to make the most of it.