I don't know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.

[During fee negotiations for singing in Vienna:] I'm not interested in money, but it must be more than anyone else gets.

I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was.

You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.

When I did not become enemies, then I understand that there was nothing standing.

I want to be a mature artist with a different kind of thinking.

Women are not pals enough with men, so we must make ourselves indispensable. After all, we have the greatest weapon in our hands by just being women.