When you reach the top, you should remember to send the elevator back down for the others.

I was hungry. I was cold. But I was also free. Free not to get up in the morning, not to go to bed at night, free to get drunk if I liked, to dream... to hope.

As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.

When he takes me in his arms, and speaks to me softly, I see the world through rose-colored glasses.

Use your faults, use your defects; then you're going to be a star.

I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.

Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.

My conservatory is in the streets. My intelligence is instinct.

All I've done all my life is disobey.

Performers and their public should never meet. Once the curtain comes down, the performer should fly away like a magician's dove.

If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.

Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.

If hunger could please God, millions hadn't starved to death.

As far as a cocktail, I do like good wines, basically with meals, and good champagnes.

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else.

You could not claim for yourself that which you were not prepared to grant others.

The genius of the Republicans has been how they figured out how to so polarize the middle class that we vote against our own best interests.

In the early '80s, I was blown away when I began to hear some of the earliest hip-hop songs, and I'm fascinated by all the permutations the genre has gone through.

I laid my face to the smooth face of the marble and howled my loss into the cold salt rain.

Theres a real power in heels and a good dress.

Sometimes one must travel far to discover what is near.