If you ever find yourself cringing at something you did in the past, it means you have grown as a person.
Set the bar high for your goals and don’t stop until you get there.
Ike’s problem was that he was a musician who always wanted to be a star; and he was a star, locally, but never internationally… so he changed his name to Ike and changed my name to Tina, because if I ran away, Tina was his name. It was patented, as they say.
I am a trained teacher. But apparently not good at pedagogy
How many cars do I have? Do I also have to count the Volvos?
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.
What can you get for a dollar? You can get piss and paper
My career always took me away from home, I was always away from home and I just wanted to be home.
Why fall in love, when you can fall asleep
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.
I will not promise to make history. But nothing is impossible.
Just because you’re unique, doesn’t mean you’re useful.
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You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.
Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
An ordinary Sunday
If you can’t outplay them, you have to outfight them.
I don’t dress up for boys. I dress up to stare at my reflection as I walk by store windows.
Well but, everything has an end, and an earthworm it has two.
An amazing breathlessness arises because we fill our lives with emptiness and Facebook. In a discussion about the empty calories of Facebook, someone close to me said with great seriousness: “I have 190 friends on Facebook.” Then I replied: “Yes, but hardly one of them will pick up your coffin the day you leave here.” Why not use the time for some fewer and real friends in the real world.
In the band, we only drink three drinks a day: two golden beers and a bottle of port.
When you are extra strong, you have a special obligation to be sweet to others
You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to your inner self.
It is better to have clean nails than soil between the ears.
I have never made a prediction, nor will I ever do so.