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I don't talk about my private life.
I have to watch out for being lazy.
I'm a Capricorn, and they flower late.
I'd love to play a musician in a film.
All I have to do is what's right for me.
Of course I have regrets; I'm not stupid.
Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!
I love the Stones, but I've gone to a lot of gigs.
The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.
Feminism is the best thing to come out of the '60's.
I'm having a great life, and I want to go on having one.
I think I'm really powerful. They'll smash me, probably.
The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin's.
The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.
I know for a fact that Heaven and Hell are here on Earth.
When you lose your reputation at 19, you lose everything.
I think you have to really, really want to be a film star.
I am not frightened of much, but I wouldn't like to get ill.
The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing 'Tosca'.
I have to be able to love somebody except myself and the theater.
I've done everything I want to do and gone everywhere I want to go.
I wish people didn't just think of me in the '60s. I'm not any era.
I'm interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.
Well, I really didn't enjoy some of the movies I did when I was young.
I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire.
I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit.
I have always been attracted to the bleaker aspects of life. I love drama.
I shoot my big mouth off; it just pops up! I have to learn to edit myself.
Penitentiary songs have been a love of mine for years. They are so wonderful.
I focus on the individual and not seeing this great big monster, "the press."
I focus on the individual and not seeing this great big monster, 'the press.'
It has been an extraordinary experience and, in many ways, extremely positive.
France has been very good for me. It has given me a very worldly-cool attitude.
I never trusted anybody at all. I don't know why it was so hard, I just didn't.
I'm glad to say my father never felt ashamed of me, but my mother probably did.
I never saw myself as beautiful. I can look back and see it now, but then? Never.
I've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor.
I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, 'sociologist.'
If you analyze the bad times you find that it's because you wanted to have a bad time.
I think it's a great shame that America stopped being a republic and became an empire.
Never apologize, never explain - didn't we always say that? Well, I haven't and I don't.
I've got quite a good brain and all that, which I've never had to use in singing at all.
I'm alive today, I'm well, I'm working, I'm still creative. What more can I say, really?
I do yoga. I do tai chi. I do a lot to keep my body and my spirit together so I can work.
When I found out my mother wanted me to marry a rich man, I instantly didn't want any rich man.
I don't like the compression on compact discs. It's lacking in air, and it's lacking in majesty.
The only time I ever really consider retiring is when I get fed up with the press. Which is often.
I do have a strong sense of God. It's impossible to explain what I mean when I say that, of course.
I'm sick of being self-referential. I don't want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal.
I've learnt to accept what has happened to my voice, I suppose, but I do wish it didn't sound quite so rough.