The people who were learning from me tended to be more commercial performers who were gonna rip off the salient idea to do it in a way that will sell, but they weren't going for the music.

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.

The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.

But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.

Are you following me?" He asked."Us?" I was the first to speak. "Um, maybe. Hi there. How are you tonight?"He looked at me like I might be a bit crazy.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

I would like to do maybe a smaller romantic comedy.

Look, I don't need to feel like hell for failing you, okay? For failing you like I've failed every other godforsaken thing that I care about! I don't need it!

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.

Prostitution is really the only crime in the penal law where two people are doing a thing mutually agreed upon and yet only one, the female partner, is subject to arrest.

Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.

India has no reason to be grateful to Mother Teresa