I had a career for 25 years in Australia before I ever came to the United States.
I am strong, I am invincible, I am woman.
I am woman, hear me roar.
The most exciting thing about women’s liberation is that this century will be able to take advantage of talent and potential genius that have been wasted because of taboos.
Believe it or not, most people think of me as a recording artist, but actually the way I think of myself and the way I earn my living is as a performing artist.
A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists.
It’s so nice to be insane, no one asks you to explain.
It took me a year to really learn the American lingo. I really feel for people who are coming here and don’t speak English at all. It must be hell.
My audience are the same people who bought my albums years ago. These people are now married, with their own homes, their own families. If I’m in concert, I get people now who bring their kids.
There is no magic person out there, no perfect human being out there waiting for you.
If you had told me when I was 18 that I wouldn’t have made it until I was 29, I would have said, Forget it.
I like music to soothe me.
I’m still an embryo with a long long way to go.
Stopping at her house is a neighbor boy with evil on his mind, cause he’s been peeking in Angie’s room at night through her window blind.
Please don’t ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago.
To this day I get mail from women who say, I went to law school because of your song. But I would hate to think out of the wide spectrum of things I have done in my career, that’s all I would be remembered for.
I think that two people who decide to live together in a marriage situation, they have an obligation to make the marriage work for them.
I worked with my parents on the stage in production numbers since I was 4, but I never really gave much thought to being a performer on my own until I was 12 or 13.
I wanted control over the merchandising, the actual packaging of the product. That was a big factor. The only way for me to exercise control on all those levels was to start my own label.
Sometimes it seems like you and me against the world.