I was expecting it to be cynical because I'm like that myself. I wouldn't want it to be all roses because life isn't like that.

Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

I don't think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It's to do with how much anger is in you.

I'm romantic. I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations. The other day, I saw a tramp polishing his shoes. That just gripped my heart.

I've always had my own style, I've always been different. I don't like to wear anything that anyone else is wearing because it's very important for me to make a statement.

Life is so much more rewarding if you strive for something, rather than take what's given to you on a plate.

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.

Life happens. There is no point in being upset or down about things we can't control or change.

I don’t need help because if I can’t help myself I can’t be helped.

Music is the only thing that will give and give and give and not take.

If you don't throw yourself into something, you'll never know what you could have had.

There's something amazing about humor and laughter. It broadens your perspective.

only kindness that raises its headfrom the crowd of the world to sayit is I you have been looking for, and then goes with you everywherelike a shadow or a friend.

Were people to mingle only with those of like mind, every man would be an insulate being." Thomas Jefferson

It is not male hatred of women but male fear of women that is the great universal.

I've learned never to close my mind to an idea simply because it seems miraculous.

[Suggesting her epitaph:] This is too deep for me.

Don't be distracted by doubters.

The attacks on old words and the coining of new are the visible tip of the iceberg of change.

Men will treat you the way you let them. There is no such thing as 'deserving' respect; you get what you demand from people.

A dancer's life is all about repetition.