 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. |
| Please don't ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago. |
| Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it. |
| 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 couldn't do anything. I'd work in a department store for a couple of weeks, but I couldn't hack it. I couldn't even type! I had no skills whatsoever outside of show business. |
| 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. |
| If I have to, I can do anything. I am strong, I am invincible, I am Woman. |
| Most of the people I know in show business don't need anybody pushing them at all. They're extremely aggressive. Topics: Show Business |
| If you tell people your ambitions, they usually laugh at you. When I told my girlfriends when I was 12 that I was going to Hollywood, they all laughed. And here I am! |
| I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend. |
| 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. |
| Stop living a day at a time and stop worrying about age. |
| 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. |
| I'm a very private person, and when I leave the stage, I leave the stage. |
| You're not going to find a man whose socks don't get dirty or who doesn't snore. |
| It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it. |
| I don't think any one person is the cause of all of someone else's problems. |
| I think back and marvel that my ambitions were so small. |
| I believe wholeheartedly in marriage. I don't exclusively mean a marriage with a legal contract, but any relationship that constitutes a marriage because of the quality of their relationship. |
| I did my own music videos, my own TV commercials. |
