I don't like violence. I get sick from violence. Do you think people are excited by violence?
America is so caught up in this celebrity mania!
You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera are doing pretty well at getting noticed - a lot of people are doing pretty well at it. But you wonder whether they'll last, because many of them don't have the ability to get an audience to love them. You say, "That's a fabulous body" or "I like that song"; you don't say, "I love them because I know them." You can't know them.
That's our mission: to clean and green New York City - one block at a time.
I've always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.
I'm confident that I'm as intelligent as many people, but I know that I'm not as intelligent as some. So in the presence of hyperintelligent people, I'm a shrinking violet because I don't want to look like a fool. I know a little about a lot and a lot about a little.
I've forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I'm too young.
When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just had a fuzzy notion of what life would be like if I became what I pictured.
As you age, feelings do diminish.
I have a ball - and it keeps my heart rate up. I get to wear fabulous clothes. I get to make people laugh. That's my core business, and that's where I'll always return.
Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
I always wanted to be a performer, I didn't know exactly what kind of performer, all I knew was there were certain things that I liked. I liked movies a whole lot, and I loved music.
I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can't physically entertain any longer. It's what I was born to do, and I love this profession.
The old forms of entertainment are not extinct. Live performances are the pinnacle. If you can something that people want to see live, then you have a great career.
The Internet has changed everything. People will be discovered online. People buy music online. It's a completely different way to get entertainment.
The people who are out to destroy the environment think they're going to get away with it. Are they breathing different air than we're breathing? Are they eating different food? I mean, where do they think they're going to go? What do they think is going to be better than what they have destroyed? I just don't get it.
I'm so glad to be back in New York. Los Angeles can be so cold, so cruel after you've been-what's the word?-oh yes: 'fired.'
If you're frightened, you're out of luck.
I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive.
Most people don't deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
Music is probably the only place I get energy from. Music and maybe watching a really tremendous performer, watching a terrific performer like Jagger or watching a great movie.
[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.
