Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I just sorta do ‘em all together, I guess.
I’ve never gotten over what they call stagefright. I go through it every show. I’m pretty concerned, I’m pretty much thinking about the show. I never get completely comfortable with it, and I don’t let the people around me get comfortable with it, in that I remind them that it’s a new crowd out there, it’s a new audience, and they haven’t seen us before. So it’s got to be like the first time we go on.
We may hold different points of view but it is in times of stress and difficulty that we most need to remember that we have much more in common than there is dividing us.
I don’t hate myself anymore. I used to hate my work, hate the sexy image, hate the pictures of me on stage, hate the big vulgar person. On stage, I act the whole time I’m there. As soon as I come out of those songs, I’m Tina again.
When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving, him a liar: you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say.
Instead of buying your children all the things you never had, you should teach them all the things you were never taught. Material wears out but knowledge stays.
The longer I stay at home, the more homeless I look.
If you only want to see dog shit, then there is dog shit.
You can beat 40 scholars with one fact, but you cannot beat one idiot with 40 facts.
When I die, I want to go to sleep peacefully like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror, like the passengers in his car.
Grief is the price we pay for love.
If the heroes run and hide, who will stay and fight?
…the image is one thing and the human being is another…it’s very hard to live up to an image.
The more you grow, the more you realize that nothing is more important than sleep.
When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.
Why fall in love, when you can fall asleep
I am self-created. I always wanted to make myself a better person because I wasn’t educated. But that was my dream – to have class.
Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.
If a man says you’re ugly, he’s just mean. If a woman says you’re ugly, she’s just jealous. If a kid says you’re ugly, you’re ugly.
If they want to be with sour and awkward people during their vacation, well, then they should probably choose another travel agency.
Sometimes it’s strange being me. I travel the world meeting people, I’m surrounded with friends and my life is full, but all the time I am confronted by a young man I have nothing in common with. He is me, but he is not me now. In fact I have been me now for longer than I was him, but no one wants to know about me.
I was mortified that she disappeared before me, sitting at her writing desk, surrounded by classical music. A cerut in hand and a glass of whisky within reach.
If we think that the way we live is good enough, then we’re completely wrong. You have to be able to doubt so that you can see that it can be done differently.
They say it’s the white man I should fear, but it’s my own kind doing all the killing here.
Don’t criticize what you don’t understand, son. You never walked in that man’s shoes.