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

Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.

When you go on a stage, before you go on a stage you're really scared and you're really frightened. You don't know what to do. "Why did I say yes to this?" But once you're on the stage you think, "Okay."

What is beauty? It's what you love.

There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.

My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to the whole world with his words and music.

Try to say nothing negative about anybody for three days, for forty-five days, for three months. See what happens to your life.