I wanted to be a model; I wanted to be a nurse; I wanted to be so many things, almost anything but being part of show business.

I've always been the breadwinner and men don't like that. They turn on you. They bite the hand that feeds them. Eventually, too, they become very jealous of the love one has with an audience.

I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.

Diamonds never leave you... men do!

It's hard for a man to live with a successful woman - they seem to resent you so much. Very few men are generous enough to accept success in their women.

I'd like to run away From you, But if you didn't come And find me ... I would die.

You don't get older, you get better.

No wedding bells for me anymore. I've been happily married to my profession for years.

I hate it when people come up to me when I'm eating.

How oddly do life and death jostle each other in this strange world of ours! How nearly allied are smiles and tears!

You should never say "never."

You learn who you are by unlearning who they taught you to be.

It is the nature of intuition to spark and guide creativity, and it's an essential ingredient for anything "new" to happen in the world at all.

The genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature that's filed everywhere else except under travel.

My own hobbies are rather quiet. I like to read and do needlework, and I love animals.

Does a dragon still sing from within a withered tree?

Bringing jobs back to Michigan and Ohio and Pennsylvania and all the places that have lost their jobs. That's already happening. I think you're gonna see tremendous job growth in this country.

You have to focus on what's important to you and go for it. But don't stab people in the back. It poisons your whole life if you're like that.

I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound.

She was like a mother to me...and I betrayed as a daughter will betray her mother and yet, never stop loving her.

Money was invented for a reason. We've seen people try to use beans, etc. and it doesn't work.