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

Imitation is the sincerest form of insecurity.

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

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.

Those with traditional sense will follow what their heart tells them is right.

It’s your privilege to find me incomprehensible. I gave you my minutes

The poet is a Cyclops in the Kingdom of the Blind whose sole cure for the madness of his vision must be starvation.

All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.

I am not mean at all, I am not tough at all.

If someone came up with a new idea for a pantomime that worked, then that would be great but we shouldn't step away from Jack and the Beanstalk, Aladdin or Mother Goose.

I think a lot of people really have religious overtones of having come from somewhere. I mean, even the whole concept of religion is kind of alien.

I'm proud to be alive during a time where we have the opportunity to responsibly bring cannabis to the public.

There are so many reality shows on now where they want you to be crazy, the girls are just going bananas; you know how they portray brown girls. They portray us in a different type of light.

A piazza is not a plaza. The plaza is the theme park of the piazza; the plaza is the commercial version. A piazza is an empty space with no function. This is what Europeans understand.