American Quotes

If I stunk for some reason, you can always blame it on the character.

If I didn't start singing in the cabarets and on my albums, I could have never even tried something like 'Capone.'

I'm a traditionalist. I have certain values I live by.

I was just so blatantly shy throughout my life.

I was 40 when I did my first movie.

I used to make up stories about my father. I would go to the movies and look for a character who looked like my father.

I need distractions. Good distractions, not bad ones. A good distraction for me is a great play.

I have sons, and they have never said the word hell in front of me or my wife. That's the truth.

I fell in love with the most beautiful girl in the Bronx.

I don't know anyone who curses the way they do on the Sopranos. Not in an Italian household. I never said the word hell in front of my mother.

Death can't be so bad if mom went through it. It makes it easier for the child to follow.

At some point in my life, before I was gone, I wanted to make an album, even if it was for no reason other than posterity.

An album is such a personal thing. It's something I always wanted to do. It's me doing me, singing as me.

As we saw in the Queen's Speech, anti-social behaviour - a phenomenon that I believe to be a genuine worry that is also being fed by a lot of scare stories - is the political theme of the moment.

Ah, the pleasure, the joy - a big news story that runs and runs, that is played down by some of our journalistic colleagues, saying 'it'll never happen', only to be confirmed by the Home Secretary.

Of, course it always cheers a news editor when a story has what we describe as 'legs' therefore it, erm, runs.

We're not earthly beings any more... we're cosmic beings.

The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om.

Now Heaven and Earth are older than the temples, and older than the Scriptures.

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved, just to love and be loved.

I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.

Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it's not an issue of black and white, it's an issue of Lovers and Haters.

After I had my son, Max, I knew I wanted to get involved in causes that help children.

You used to have to sing and convey emotion, and now, well, technically you can do anything with technology. It sucks for music today, but that's why that old music feels so good to me.

I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God.

I'm a lucky girl.

I think it's really great when you stand up for something that you really believe, even if you get heat for it.

When success comes, people can try to trick you or take advantage of you.

To be given the opportunity to help shape new artists' careers and mentor them to see their dreams come to fruition is a task I welcome with open arms.

I'm experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity.