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" Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars. "

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" Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it. "

" I think there is a big difference between the music business and music. And my relationship is to music, not music business. I think the business will keep changing, but music won't. Music will be there. "

" I'm not going to doubt my life. "

" Women artists are still treated differently from men. "

" You change the world by being yourself. "

" Music is like my security blanket. "

" I get very nervous before I get on the stage, but once I'm on the stage, I'm just, you know, me. Nothing hurts me. "

" I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun. "

" My beauty secret is... nothing! I don't drink too much water. I don't eat very well. Sometimes I cheat and grab some chocolate. The best thing is to eat what you want, but not very much. "

" What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true. "

" Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I would never claim to have the worst situation. There are many widows, and many people dying of AIDS, many people killed in Lebanon, people starving all over the planet. So we have to count our lucky stars. "

" Chemically speaking or biologically, we research things, but we don't know half of them. We only know our half of it - symbolically - and we don't know ourselves more than half. "

" There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all. "

" I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums. "

" You know, something happened to me when I became 70. I started to feel a tremendous love for the human race, and life and this planet, the universe, the whole shebang. "

" I always believed that my work should be unfinished in the sense that I encourage people to add their creativity to it, either conceptually or physically. Back in the 1960s, I was calling for 'Unfinished Music,' number one, and number two, with my artwork - I was taking unfinished work into the gallery. And that's how I was looking at it. "

" Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous. "

" You can be very wild and still be very wise. "

" Women are put in a position of feeling embarrassed about their bodies. It's so ridiculous, but also astounding - we have to always be apologetic about having created the human race. "

" Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke. "

" I think that there is a sort of spiritual power that is translating into our bodies as we perform. Performers give, and giving is so important. It can heal. That is my experience, anyway. "

" Nothing is written in stone. So don't prepare yourself for a long and lucrative career. You might die tomorrow. Your gold holdings might become dust. Just make the music you want to make now and enjoy it. "

" If a woman writes about a domestic situation, everyone automatically assumes that it's about her. "

" We artists have the dignity to tell the truth to the people, unlike politicians. "

" People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication. "

" Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times. "

" My first husband met me as a career woman, and the second did, too. I was lucky. "

" I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy. "

" I always thought that I was an important musician. If you don't have that confidence, why would you go on and do it? "