What's happened to humour? We're becoming American. Everyone gets so angry over everything.

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.

Everything flows and nothing stays.

Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.

Always have old memories, and young hopes.

If you don't want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights.

U feel that way sometimes wondering: wondering, how did we survive?

The bones of the skeleton which support the body can become the bars of the cage which imprison the spirit.

Do what is right, and the reward will be immediate and multitudinous. Think what is right, and your authority will grow.

Yes. The whole point about laughter is it's like mercury: you can't catch it, you can't catch what motivates it - that's why it's funny.

I guess I kind of realized that my whole life isn’t one giant press junket. I don’t have to be smiling all the time and always have the perfect answer.

Arab nation, Egypt, is not mentioned [in the Muslim Ban]? This is where facts are optional for the liberal media.