I am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman.

When you like something, you should do it all night long.

Frida Kahlo taught me a lot without ever bragging about anything.

I was never afraid of anything because I never hurt anyone. I was always an old drunk.

What hurts is not being homosexual, but they tell it in your face as if you were a plague.

I've never even been to bed with a man. Never. That's how pure I am; I have nothing to be ashamed of. My gods made me the way I am.

You have the power. You have the magic to transform the world

What careful planning, what painstaking attention to detail, goes into extinguishing a man's life! Far more than the hit-or-miss, haphazard circumstances of igniting it.("New York Blues")

Man is nature's sole mistake.

No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.

If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.

I don't think anybody's necessarily ready for death. You can only hope that when it approaches, you feel like you've said what you wanted to say. Nobody wants to go out in mid-sentence.

We shouldn't require our politicians to be movie stars. Then again, we're all influenced by charisma. It's hard not to be. We all collectively fall for it.

People who try to create a musical revolution do not have a chance, but those who turn their back to music can sometimes find it.

Resolve to be always beginning-to be a beginner!

My parents were both actors my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.