I haven't really been recording in the last several years. I haven't wanted to. And even though I had to deal with Sony and now I'm on Universal again, I will probably put out a new record soon.

God had to create disco music so I could be born and be successful.

I don't care if I'm beautiful; I don't care what I am on the outside. It isn't about the outside.

Nobody wants you to stop, obviously because you're a moneymaking machine. But you have to make the decision and you have to move forward. So I took time off to have babies and do all that.

Heaven knows, it's not the way it could be.

I need you by me, beside me, to guide me, to hold me, to scold me, cause when I'm bad, I'm so, so bad.

Let's say that, in reality, I'm basically very shy when it comes to men.

I am sensual and very physical. I'm very erotic. But my sexuality exists on a sort of a fantasy level.

If you've never been to one of my concerts. I want you to know that it is OK to scream and yell.

My life was changed in one breath from God.

She works hard for the money so you better treat her right.

Everybody would be a dictator if he could.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.

Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away.

It was the people who did not care who filled the world with fire and oppression. It was the hands of the indifferent that lit the faggots; it was the hands of the indifferent that turned the rack.

When I say 'God' it is poetry and not theology

As soon as I moved to Princeton in 1978, I became fascinated by local history, much of it Revolutionary War-era; and I became fascinated by the presidency of Woodrow Wilson at Princeton University.

I'm so much like Luke Skywalker I guess I always will be.

Personally, my twenties were a complete waste of time. Professionally, I hope some good came of them.

A mother always thinks twice: for herself and for the child