Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited. I believe in people so much that if the whole of civilization is burned so we don't have any memory of it, even then people will start to build their own art. It is a necessity -- a function. We don't need history.

In the Second World War, I was a little girl. I was evacuated in my country.

I'm kind of honored to be a dragon lady. The dragon is a very powerful, mythical animal.

I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'

Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.

Even my mother told me: 'You are a handsome woman, but you're not pretty. Pretty girls don't have those big bones.'

There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.