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" Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening! "

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

" Understand where it is you want to go. Then picture yourself there. If you can picture yourself there, then you can be there. Bottom line. "

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

" 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 don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow. "

" I've got a Grammy and Emmy, I'd like to have a Tony. "

" If you saw me without makeup, you wouldn't recognize me. "

" Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Just like I am obsessed with the history of fashion, I love reading about the history of makeup. "

" It's that anonymous person who meanders through the streets and feels what's happening there, feels the pulse of the people, who's able to create. "

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

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

" I wanted to make the album I always needed to make. I had to say the things I never could. "

" I come from a line of great Sicilian women, and their mentality is to endure and push through to the other side. "

" If you can't go one way, there's many ways to get where you're going. So you just take a step back and see beyond the wall. "

" The '80s was a really creative and brave period. Remember, it was a period of ultraconservatism, and so you needed brave people to push ahead like that. "

" You know, I do speak the Queens English. It's just the wrong Queens that's all. It's over the 59th Street Bridge. It's not over the Atlantic Ocean. "

" I wouldn't record any song that I didn't like. "

" When I perform on stage, I often pretend to be someone other than myself to bring a certain emotion or intent to a song. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "