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" Men and women are different. I don't think men grow a brain until 26 or even 30. Girls mature a lot quicker. "

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" When I got hoarse, the manager would say, 'Drink this. Joplin used to drink this,' and I used to say, 'Joplin? Joplin's dead. "

" God has more important things to worry about than who I sleep with. "

" I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else. "

" I get the greatest feeling when I'm singing. It's other-worldly. Your feet are anchored into the Earth and into this energy force that comes up through your feet and goes up the top of your head and maybe you're holding hands with the angels or the stars, I have no idea. "

" People can save the world by the way they think and by the way they behave and what they hold to be important. "

" I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me. "

" When I sing I don't feel like it's me. I feel I am fabulous, like I'm 10 feet tall. I am the greatest. I am the strongest. I am Samson. I'm whoever I want to be. "

" I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I've always been driven to follow my own path and not be pushed down another lane because some executive thought I could be more commercially successful or whatever. "

" You always have to remember - no matter what you're told - that God loves all the flowers, even the wild ones that grow on the side of the highway. "

" I do have a lot of difficulty figuring out what I want to be working on, but what's the alternative? To be one of those people who has a million things they want to do, and then never does any of them? And then where will you be? "

" I'm not gonna worry about what people think about me. I'm too busy. I don't give a hoot. "

" I've always wondered what it would be like if somebody from outer space landed with three heads. Then all of a sudden everybody else wouldn't look so bad, huh? Well, OK you're a little different from me but, hey, ya got one head. "

" Dick Clark was a really great influence in my career; he helped me a lot with his whole organization, and they were awesome to me at all different points - but one thing that I really disagreed with him on was when he said that what I do, pop music, is a disposable art form. "

" Somebody did complain to me and tell me that my clothes were so loud they couldn't hear me sing. "

" I'm in the business where you get the business all the time. "

" I always sang. I wanted to be in a band with my sister, and I was, at 11. At 12, I started writing seriously, and that was my pacifier all through high school - that and painting. "

" My torso is short, but my arms are really long and gangly and my legs and my neck, and my feet and hands are really long, and I look like a duck. "

" Everything does go in a circle. "

" Fame doesn't redeem you. It takes a long time to get there, and when you're finally there, you realise you still have authority figures telling you what to do. "

" I learned jazz; that comes from blues. I learned rock; that comes from blues. I learned pop; that comes from blues. Even dance, that comes from blues, with the answer-and-response. "

" There's ageism in everything. I don't give a hoot. It isn't what other people think; it's what you think. But it's hard to come to terms with getting older. I admire people like Vivienne Westwood. "

" My mother said I was a little odd as a kid. I was alone a lot, but I didn't feel alone. "

" What, do you think that feminism means you hate men? "

" I have a wig for when I go outside among the regular folks, so they don't feel uncomfortable because I have a Day-Glo color somewhere in my hair. "

" I can't judge the way other people behave. I can only look at myself. "

" When I sing I have a lot of visions. Like what's happening now in my life. "

" You can laugh when I talk, but not when I sing. "