Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth.

When you reach the top, you should remember to send the elevator back down for the others.

I was hungry. I was cold. But I was also free. Free not to get up in the morning, not to go to bed at night, free to get drunk if I liked, to dream... to hope.

As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.

When he takes me in his arms, and speaks to me softly, I see the world through rose-colored glasses.

Use your faults, use your defects; then you're going to be a star.

I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.

Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.

My conservatory is in the streets. My intelligence is instinct.

All I've done all my life is disobey.

Performers and their public should never meet. Once the curtain comes down, the performer should fly away like a magician's dove.

Emotional self-defense...Those who care so much, maybe too much, know that it takes wisdom and courage to sometimes say, “no” to others.

Successful people are not people without problems. They are people who have learned to solve their problems.

The only artist who does not deserve respect is the one who works to please the public, for commercial success or for official success.

I was a huge 'Bewitched' fan growing up.

Dysfunctional muscles are generally not diseased, aging, or broken. They are starved of motion.

If our planes were shot down, yes, they's wake me right away. If the other fellows' were shot down, why wake me up?

[Women] are early taught that to appear to yield is the only way to govern.

The open heart sees, feels and absorbs the beauty of the world.

Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.

How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green!