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"Many of my songs were dance orientated from way back. That's because I love dance! When I hear a dance number, just hearing the first eight bars, it immediately makes my bod start moving and dancing."
"Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women."
"If you go back to all my albums, they're all confessional."
"If you have a slave around the house how can you expect to make a revolution outside it? The problem for women is that if we try to be free, then we naturally become lonely, because so many women are willing to become slaves, and men usually prefer that."
"The universe is a space bigger than all of us we are part of."
"Walking on thin ice, I'm paying the price. I'm throwing the dice in the air. Why must we learn it the hard way And play the game of life with your heart?"
"The process is always the same. I get an inspiration for a new song, I put it down on paper immediately so I won't lose it. When I am ready to go to the studio with it, I play it a few times on the piano and edit, add, and type the lyrics and take it to the studio. Sometimes I don't have anything on paper."
"There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it."
"There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all."
"I have only one life, so I want to make sure it's a good one."
"The odds of not meeting in this life are so great that every meeting is like a miracle. It's a wonder that we don't make love to every single person we meet."
"I respect Lady Gaga very much."
"All I can say is, it's not very easy for a woman to be associated with The Beatles."
"The boats outside the window were always still I wondered if one of them would take me to the ocean."
"The only way you can better John is by copying him exactly."
"I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much."
"I get very nervous before I get on the stage, but once I'm on the stage, I'm just, you know, me. Nothing hurts me."
"Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke."
"I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit pretentious. But energy is not."
"When I got pregnant, I had to concentrate on being pregnant for a whole nine months, even though I knew it was ruining my career at the time."