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

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

... 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.

Art is the only thing you cannot punch a button for. You must do it the old-fashioned way. 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.

I am here and you will know that I am the best and will hear me.

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