I went to boarding school at seven and cried and cried.

I loved looking at myself when I was very photogenic, at the very beginning of my career.

It's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy.

To give and not expect anything in return, that is what lies at the heart of love.

I seem to have been everywhere in the last 30 years, maybe not in the epicenter but flying around the periphery of extraordinary events and equally extraordinary people.

I have nothing to complain about.. except maybe people wondering if a queen like me can be butch-it-up enough to play a convincing straight man.

From my point of view, being out is not about anything political. It's just because I can't be bothered to be in.

I smell of sweat. I don't like people smelling of all these weird things. I think deodorant is disgusting.

Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren't very good. That sums up what authority is about for me.

We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. It's fertiliser, it's like living fertiliser, because you're forced on yourself.

You're not allowed to be an eccentric in the world, you have to fit it.

When justice is more certain and more mild, is at the same time more efficacious.

It's our actions that define us. What we choose. What we resist. What we're willing to die for.

Death is the destiny of every man.

Do not rely completely on any other human being however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.

American leadership is not simply a matter of going it alone and bearing all of the burden ourselves.

He who wrongs the innocent must bear the fruit of his act, like dust flung against the wind.

I stay true to my lyrics. If I go back and look at them in hindsight, the emotions I had when I wrote them have passed. It feels unjustified to change them.

Having viewed Europe as an extension and projection of itself, France now finds Europe developing a mind and identity of its own which embraces France but is not controlled by France.

I was young. I was newly married. And I had worked like a dog. I just wanted to live and travel.

The only way for us to have long-term happiness is to live by our highest ideals.