I always said, 'A blind dog with three legs could get a standing ovation for singing 'I'm Still Here!''

Imitation is the sincerest form of insecurity.

Smoking ages you quicker than almost anything else.

Show me a woman content with her figure and I'll show you a seven-year-old girl. Everybody else is engaged in the war against flab.

I was fanatically ambitious. All I ever wanted was to be a star. I didnt want to be a singer. I didnt want to be an actress. I wanted to be a star.

The secret Ive lived by ever since I started earning money is this: Always buy a house with an extra bedroom adjoining the master. And thats always my closet.

John Waters is one of the sweetest, dearest, most adorable men I've ever worked with.

Baltimore is one of the most beautiful towns, really. And trust me, I don't say that about every place. There is just something so quaint, old and beautiful about this place.

I started having a lot of problems with my voice in my mid-30s.

Modern formulaic society will try to make you "normal, " rushing to call pseudoscientific anything you can do that they can’t.

You want to go to a place where you never lose anything and you keep gaining many things? Go to the Land Of Literature where you gain new paths, new ideas, new lives, new goals, and new souls!

To leap over the wall of self, to look through another’s eyes--this is valuable experience, which literature offers.

It was a start, and a start is all anyone needs to put an end to something.

The worst place to be is in the middle. When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.

When you buy a piece of vintage clothing you're not just buying the fabric and thread - you're buying a piece of someone's past

Souls bound together can't be forever torn apart by distance and neither by death.

The challenge when you think about product distribution is: how are you competing for potential customers or potential members time?

But the rhythm of the mix tape is the rhythm of romance, the analog hum of a physical connection between two sloppy, human bodies.

Clothes are but a symbol of something hid deep beneath.