I prefer to leave standing up, like a well-mannered guest at a party.

You should always know when you're shifting gears in life. You should leave your era - it should never leave you.

Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.

Once you get on stage, everything is right. I feel the most beautiful, complete, fulfilled. I think that's why, in the case of noncompromising career women, parts of our personal lives don't work out. One person can't give you the feeling that thousands of people give you.

If you're not feeling good about you, what you're wearing outside doesn't mean a thing.

A healthy sex life. Best thing in the world for a woman's voice.

... we performers are monsters. We are a totally different, far-out race of people. I totally and completely admit, with no qualmsat all, my egomania, my selfishness, coupled with a really magnificent voice.