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

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.

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.

If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.

Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words.

God owns heaven but He craves the earth.

The best thing to do is to get out in front of an audience as much as you can, and learn from the experience.

Music should always be an adventure.

The most important thing is for you to believe in what you are doing.

Write a page every single day, even if what you put on the page that day is no good - it's the only way to get better.

I've done a lot of films that all have been pretty edgy.

I feel that when you want to seduce a man, you really need your legs. Since all my outfits were long dresses, I have to say that I really didn't feel sexy at all.

Lord, give me firmness without hardness, steadfastness without dogmatism, love without weakness.

I've seen many troubles in my time, only half of which ever came true.