You know, I'm fifty-two now and I call myself a singer. Before I kick it I want to be able to carry a tune in a living room if called upon. Of course, mine come out all dark and twisted and weird.

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.

Every man has an ambition. Let it be a good one. Just drive toward it with enthusiasm.

In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.

I probably get one or two days off every five or six weeks.

Aphrodisiacs come in many forms: food, drink, the internet.

Liberty (individual freedom) is the prize, responsibility the price.

I'd like to put on buckskins and a ponytail and go underwater with a reed, hiding from the Indians... To me, that's sexy!

Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.

Cheap grace replaces truth with tolerance, lowering the bar so everyone can jump over it and we can all feel good about ourselves.

I've had women come up to me and say I was the reason they went to law school.

The power which is in you, is in the things around you, and when you begin to move forward by faith, the things will arrange themselves for your advantage.