I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn’t like it a bit.
I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.
How oddly do life and death jostle each other in this strange world of ours! How nearly allied are smiles and tears!
I’m not getting old. I’m getting better.
In truth, it requires not only a large intellect, but a large heart, to judge with becoming charity of the peculiar temptations of riches.
I wanted to be a model; I wanted to be a nurse; I wanted to be so many things, almost anything but being part of show business.
I learned by standing in the wings and watching established acts on stage.
I’m too busy putting my energies into my performance to be a diva.
When I started singing, I couldn’t be shut up.
I’m always being asked if I watch ‘The X Factor,’ and I do from time to time. I know it makes for great TV and that Simon Cowell has a real gift.
It’s hard for a man to live with a successful woman – they seem to resent you so much. Very few men are generous enough to accept success in their women.
You want success, and then when you do get it, you don’t want it because of the attention.
I hate it when people come up to me when I’m eating.
I’ve always been the breadwinner and men don’t like that. They turn on you. They bite the hand that feeds them. Eventually, too, they become very jealous of the love one has with an audience.
I was a wild kid. I was left to climb trees. And you know those railways logs, they piled them up, six feet apart, and I’d jump from one to the other. Without a safety net! I was an incredible tomboy.