I see myself as universal, not as a German, American, French or whatever, because we all live on this planet. We're all living on the earth.

I approach everything as an absolute outsider. It is the only way I can break so many rules.

I'm from Planet Nomi where I wear black lipstick so you can see my lips and what I am doing with them.

I feel threatened, and sometimes it makes me angry because I can't do anything about that, there's just too many issues. But in a way I think my work is meant to get people out of that.

Elvis Presley is my spiritual father, and as you may know Maria Callas is my spiritual mother.

What makes life complicated is the things that are on me and it is very hard to keep things simple. I see it as I am complicated and there is innocence to this.

A man without makeup is like a cake without icing.

It is a very personal thing to me, because this is my basic voice, this is where I come from, and it is one of the oldest voice styles in human history.

I did every thing, even dirty jobs like dishwashing or delivery boy for a grocer.

I come as the wicked witch from the Barock era.

People should allow me to be many things, really give me the room to put things in another dimension.

A leader is a person who knows how to act when other people don’t.

It was never a big leap from "unfamiliar" to "suspected

I am often, I believe, praying for others when I should be doing things for them. It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see him.

I love all those girls the same as they love me. I get thousands of letters a week from girls who love me.... Every time I sing a song, I make love to them. I'm a boudoir singer.

He who cannot read is worse than deaf and blind, is yet but half alive, is still-born.

Let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life.

It's unfortunate that music has become such big business.

You are not your body. You are actually an extension of the power that created the whole universe.

Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.

Grace and remembrance be to you both.