No matter what I do with my life, or how successful I am, I will always be a socially awkward penguin inside.
Three-quarters of the world’s population doesn’t have enough to eat!
Most of the people I know in show business don't need anybody pushing them at all. They're extremely aggressive.
Stop living a day at a time and stop worrying about age.
The most exciting thing about women's liberation is that this century will be able to take advantage of talent and potential genius that have been wasted because of taboos.
My audience is the baby-boomers, the bulk of the population. This is also a group that is being ignored by most record companies because they're not the Top 40 hit singles market. They forget these people still listen to music.
It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it.
The more I see and hear, the more I realize how much I don't know.
The greatest secret to living a happy, fulfilled life is the realization that everything is created in our minds before it manifests itself in the outer world. We must believe it before we can see it.
Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling.
This worked out perfectly for me in college, because what nineteen-year-old Virginia boy doesn't want a wide-hipped, sarcastic Greek girl with short hair that's permed on top? What's that you say? None of them want that? You are correct.