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.

I told you I was trouble, you know that I'm no good.

All writers are to some extent inventors, describing people as they would like to see them in life.

You breathe.You feel.You seeand hearand smelland tasteand thinkand moveand laughand weepand healand danceand singand love.Thank your mother.

Bobby [Fosse] was very difficult to work with, he wanted to be a big star at MGM, but it was the end of making musical movies at the time.

I don't think that success is the premise to what is good or bad.

God shapes the world by prayer.

There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it

Yeah, well, asparagus is good for me, but it still makes me want to throw up.

Of course, in order to make art, the frustration of not working has to be greater than the frustration of working.

Mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though everything is altered.

A lot of people work out to be skinny. That's so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman.