Power without guilt, love without doubt...
My idea of the perfect man would be someone intelligent and clever enough, but also kind and compassionate enough to stand up to me – to stand up to me with compassion.
You don’t have to have a language in common with someone for a sexual rapport. But it helps if the language you don’t understand is Italian.
Not only does society suffer from racism and sexism but it also suffers from ageism. Once you reach a certain age you’re not allowed to be adventurous, you’re not allowed to be sexual. I mean, is there a rule? Are you supposed to just die?
I guess I like to have fun.
The one thing I don’t understand is when people make comments who are clearly not fans of mine. I think, why are you here? Why are you wasting your time? It’s fascinating.
Obviously, I feel a great sense of responsibility being a good parent and raising my children. I don’t take that job very lightly. Who they are, what they become and what they contribute to the world is very important to me.
If we took a holiday, took some time to celebrate, just one day out of life, it would be, it would be so nice.
It takes a Real man to fill my shoes.
When the day is done the most important thing is loving people and sharing love.
Death was a big part of my life growing up. I went to lots of funerals.
Sleeping is the most difficult part of what I do, relaxing afterwards. Letting things go.
We’re in the world of creating illusions and giving people the ability to dream and to be inspired or moved.
Children always think they did something wrong when their parents disappear.
Suffering is a big informer, a big catalyst for creation. You take your sadness, your despair, your sense of injustice, and you put it in your work.
I like that you have four minutes to zero in on something and evoke a specific feeling and take people on some sort of journey.
My daughter’s birth was like a rebirth for me.
You don’t want to be the smartest person in the room; you want to be the dumbest in the room. You want to be surrounded by other thinking people who are going to say something that makes you think, “Oh, my God, that’s an amazing idea. Why didn’t I think of that.”
I actually always try to have a moment in my show where I can just lay down on stage and talk to people for a little while.
I think the silence would be good with me, and not interacting with people would be okay. But not being able to move outside of the space would be hard. Not being able to walk around – the stillness of my body, physically – that would be the challenge.