When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just had a fuzzy notion of what life would be like if I became what I pictured.

My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.

If only I'd known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.

I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.

I have my standards. They're low, but I have them.

Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade.

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes.

If you can accept your differentness and learn to love it and encourage it, then you can be someone wonderful.

Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I'll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?

People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.

you have to find the words to make it sound important

Fall in love with a weird one - someone not quite right in the head - life is far more interesting when love is odd

You can't ever be your heroes, but you can love their gifts.

I'm a young girl and I want to have fun.

I’m a Brooklyn guy onstage, and I try to really feed my fans with the kind of material they expect from me.

There's something about all the people who are on a mission for purity and chastity, which I find very questionable.

So you may look lightly upon a Scripture and see nothing; meditate often upon it, and there you shall see a light, like the light of the sun.

O Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.

Possibility is the oxygen upon which hope thrives.

I like to be lean and flexible. I'm not interested in gaining size.