My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.

I'm a street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm.

Music is life, and life is not a business.

I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, 'Wow, I'm really great-looking.'... I think I'm the greatest, anyway.

They say that death kills you, But death doesn't kill you. Boredom and indifference kill you.

And it's a - it's a term that's based on contempt; it's a term that's based on fashion, style, elitism, satanism, and, everything that's rotten about rock 'n' roll.

It's more fun to look at an old picture of me than it is to look at a new one sometimes. Although, I still wear a dress pretty well.

What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.

Nihilism is best done by professionals.

I'm glad I am crazy, it keeps me trying. I despise trendies, I know they're lying.

Bowie's a real man, and I'm a real woman - just like Catherine Deneuve.

AcceptanceThere are things I missthat I shouldn't, and those I don'tthat I should.Sometimes we wantwhat we couldn't—sometimes we lovewho we could.

Great opportunities may come once in a lifetime, but small opportunities surround us every day.

My girls are great at making fun of Dad. They're never impressed with anything I do. I love that. I hope that never changes.

A new biography of Madonna came out last week, and apparently the biography lists all the men she's slept with. The book is apparently called the Manhattan Telephone Directory.

I'm going now. My time has come.

I'm always aiming for some magic in films if I can find a mystical quality either in a song or in a moment or a character's intention.

Perfume is that last and best reserve of the past, the one which when all out tears have run dry, can make us cry again!

With the intellect I always have always shall overcome, but that is not the half of the work. The life, the life Oh my God! shall the life never be sweet!

I wanted to be a fifth grade teacher because my teacher was so important to me and was giving me the education that was going to take me through life and through this world.

Governments, systems, ideologies come and go, but it is humanity which remains.