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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" There have been great things that happened to me. "

" You know, I've been playing with my hair color ever since I was nine. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Everything does go in a circle. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Sharon Osbourne is such a blast and she's so, so bright. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Sometimes my mind boggles. It's so deep my mind actually boggles. "

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

" The more you practice and study, the better you are... so I still practice and study all the time. "