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I'm Not Interested So Much In Collaboration. You See That From The History Of My Albums.

I Feel Sad That He's Just A Voice Now.

A Lot Of Things Have Been Thrown At Me In Life, And I've Got Through It All Without A Rule Book, Taking It One Day At A Time.

One Day At A Time

Djs Are In Incredible Competition, Musically. And They Are The Most Musically Creative And Sensitive People In All The Music Charts. I Am Amazed How They Are.

The Sky Is Always There For Me, While My Life Has Been Going Through Many, Many Changes. When I Look Up The Sky, It Gives Me A Nice Feeling, Like Looking At An Old Friend.

The Regret Of My Life Is That I Have Not Said 'i Love You' Often Enough.

Being Alone Is Very Difficult.

Some People Are Saying There's Going To Be A Third World War. I Hope Not. I Really Think This Is A Time That People Can Start To Mend Things By Negotiations, Dealings. We Know About Dealings, Don't We? We Have Brilliant Lawyers. Why Don't We Have Brilliant Lawyers Standing Up And Working For Peace?

I Always Believed That My Work Should Be Unfinished In The Sense That I Encourage People To Add Their Creativity To It, Either Conceptually Or Physically. Back In The 1960s, I Was Calling For 'unfinished Music,' Number One, And Number Two, With My Artwork - I Was Taking Unfinished Work Into The Gallery. And That's How I Was Looking At It.

Unfinished Work

I Should Think That People Would Be More Interested In Politics And All That Is Happening, Rather Than Two Lovebirds Who Are Looking To Wed. I Think It's Very Nice That In An Age When Love Is So Scarce That People Are Willing To Gamble On Getting Married.

When I Hear Music, My Body Just Starts To Move. It Has Nothing To Do With Training Or Anything. That's Just Me. That's Just My Body. And I Was Like That As A Child, Too.

Indie Music Is 'it' Now. It's Kind Of A Revolution To The Music: 1980s, 1990s Music Was Getting Very Sanitized; They Were Complying With The Music Industry. Music Was Getting More And More Dead In A Way. Now, Because Of The Social Climate That's Very Severe, The Artists Are Compelled To Start Being Real. It's Really Great That Indie Music Is Now.

If Your Life Changes, We Can Change The World, Too.

Power Is Not Something We Should Be Afraid Of. Power Is Great, Power Is Energy. And In Terms Of Energy, The Most Important Energy Is Human Spiritual Energy And When I Say Spiritual, I Feel Like Have To Be Very Careful, I Don't Mean Religious, I Mean The Energy Of The Mind, The Energy That Exists Within Us.

Artists Are Magicians And I Definitely Think John Lennon Was A Wizard.

When You Are Suffering, You Become More Understanding About Yourself, But Also About Other People's Sufferings Too. That's The First Step To Understand Somebody Is To Understand Their Sufferings. So Then Love Follows.

I Saw Sorrow Turning Into Clarity.

Remember, Each One Of Us Has The Power To Change The World. Just Start Thinking Peace, And The Message Will Spread Quicker Than You Think.

I Never Thought I Would Go Into The Dance Charts.

The Art World Was Not Initially Really Accepting My Kind Of Work. I Was Ahead Of My Time.

We Don't Read People's Wishes. The Wishes Are Suppose To Be Direct Communication To The Universe. Your Interception Will Weaken The Power Of The Wish.

Every Moment In Our Lives Is A Miracle We Should Enjoy Instead Of Ignoring.

Imagine Painting All The Statues In The World In The Color Of The Sky

Women Have Become Stronger, And There's A Backlash. Men Have Become Terribly Possessive. I Find It Much Easier To Get On With Women.

Use Your Blood To Paint. Keep Painting Until You Faint. Keep Painting Until You Die.

When You Burn The Chair, You Suddenly Realize That The Chair In Your Mind Did Not Burn Or Disappear

Most People Think That I Am Too Optimistic, But My Optimism Is Based On The Thought That Negative Thinking Is A Luxury That We Can't Afford.

All My Life, I Have Been In Love With The Sky. Even When Everything Was Falling Apart Around Me, The Sky Was Always There For Me.

Always There For Me

It's A Waste Of Time To Think That If You Colored A Painting Red What Might Have Happened If You Painted It Black.

Remember Love. Remember Our Hearts Are One. Even When We Are Fighting With Each Other, Our Hearts Are Beating In Unison. I Love You.

Not Being Appreciated For 40 Years Or Something ... It Feels Like I Was Accused Of Something That I Didn't Do, Which Was Breaking Up The Beatles. That Was Like Being Somebody Who Is In Prison Without Having Done Anything Wrong.

Rather Than Deal With Problems In Relationships, I've Always Moved On. That's Why I'm One Of The Very Few Survivors As A Woman, You Know.

I'm Not Giving Any Guidance, Ok. I Mean, You Know, Mothers Are Not Supposed To Give Guidance, Right? Anyway, So He's [sean] Doing His Own Thing.

The Computer Is My Favourite Invention. I Feel Lucky To Be Part Of The Global Village. I Don't Mean To Brag, But I'm So Fast With Technology. People Think It All Seems Too Much, But We'll Get Used To It. I'm Sure It All Seemed Too Much When We Were Learning To Walk.

Perhaps One Feels More Pain When Parents Are There. It's Like When You're Hungry, You Know, It's Worse To Get A Symbol Of A Cheeseburger Than No Cheeseburger At All. It Doesn't Do You Any Good, You Know.

The War Industry People Are Very Together; They Know Exactly What They Want; They Don't Even Have To Talk To Each Other. The Peace Industry People Are Just Intellectuals Who Are Very Critical Of Each Other... Unless The Peace Industry Is Powerful, We're Always Going To Have War. It Is As Simple As That.

Touch, Touch, Touch, Touch Me Love, I'm Shaking Inside.

What A Beautiful Future It Will Be! Don't Worry About Life Being Boring. It Will Never Be.

Anger Is An Emotion That Is Very Energetic. It Is An Ideal Emotion To Turn It Around To Make It Work As A Positive Force.

Transform Jealousy To Admiration, And What You Admire Will Become Part Of Your Life.

Fracking Kills, And It Doesn't Just Kill Us. It Kills The Land, Nature And, Eventually, The Whole World.

I'm A Very Obsessive Type. If I Do Get Into It, I'll Soon Be There 12 Hours A Day. I Just Don't Want To Do That.

Artists And Musicians Of The Sixties Were Definitely Into Clothes.

All Wishes Create An Upswing Line When It Is Manifested. Therefore, Together, It Becomes An Incredible Upswing Of Power, Whatever You Wished. Of Course, The More High Level Wishes, Which Covers The Whole Human Race Is Stronger Than Wishing For Getting Ice Cream For Your Dessert!

Your Private Life Is Really Very Important For You. You Know, All Of Us, You Know.

Next Time You Meet A 'foreigner', Remember It's Only Like A Window With A Different Shape To It And The Person Who's Sitting Inside Is You.

I Was Born Into A Very Important Family In Japan. My Grandfather Was A Descendant Of The Emperor, And We Were Very Wealthy.

When I Speak Out Against The Guns Or Against The Big Corporations, Some Of My Friends Say, 'oh Yoko, Be Careful. These People Have All The Power.' But, You Know, Most People Don't Speak Out Because They Are Frightened.

I Think If You Give In And Accept Society's Stereotypes, Then You Start Thinking, 'i Cannot Dance Till Late At Night Because I'm 70.'

Is Truth Always Positive? Of Course. Once The Truth Comes Out, You Know, It's All Right. We're Scared That If The Truth Comes Out That It's Not All Right. It's The Other Way Around.

Truth Comes Out

I Wonder Why Men Get Serious At All. They Have This Delicate, Long Thing Hanging Outside Their Bodies Which Goes Up And Down By Its Own Will. If I Were A Man I Would Always Be Laughing At Myself.

I Wonder Why Men Can Get Serious At All. They Have This Delicate Long Thing Hanging Outside Their Bodies, Which Goes Up And Down By Its Own Will. First Of All, Having It Outside Your Body Is Terribly Dangerous. If I Were A Man I Would Have A Fantastic Castration Complex To The Point That I Wouldn't Be Able To Do A Thing. Second, The Inconsistency Of It, Like Carrying A Chance Time Alarm Or Something. If I Were A Man I Would Always Be Laughing At Myself.

After My Husband John Lennon Passed Away, I Tried To Smile For My Health.

Give Death Announcements Each Time You Move Instead Of Giving Announcements Of The Change Of Address. Send The Same When You Die.

Keep Going Until Your Efforts Start To Make Things Better In Your Hometown.

Even My Mother Told Me: 'you Are A Handsome Woman, But You're Not Pretty. Pretty Girls Don't Have Those Big Bones.'

The Opposite Of Love Is Fear, Not Hate.

Sometimes The Father Feels Pushed Out Because Of The Connection Between The Mother And The Child.

Love Is What I Give To The One I Love.

Events Are The Best Teacher For Us. You Try To Learn From People, There Is Always Some Bend To It.

Money Is Not Everything. We Don't Need Billions And Trillions Of Dollars.

The Cynicism That You Have Is Not Your Real Soul.

When People Get Cynical About Love, They Should Look At Us [yoko And John Lennon] And See It Is Possible

I Never Thought, "i'm Going To Be An Artist". When I Actually Began To Become Successful In The Art World I Made It A Point To Say, 'i Am A Dilettante, I Am Not A Professional Artist", Which Is True.

I Think There Is A Big Difference Between The Music Business And Music. And My Relationship Is To Music, Not Music Business. I Think The Business Will Keep Changing, But Music Won't. Music Will Be There.

My Heart Is Mysteriously Alive In The World Of Sounds - A Totally Different Dimension From The Daily Life.

Everything Has Complexity. Everything Has Simplicity. You Just Grab It.

Tell The Earth How Much You Care, How Beautiful She Is, And How Much You Love Her. Ask For Her Forgiveness For Having Been So Careless.

Dance In Your Dream. Go Out Into The Street And Hug Everyone You Meet. Tell Them How Beautiful They Are. Dance Together.

Some People Don't Listen To My Music Because They Say That I Am An Artist. And Some Don't Want To Go To My Gallery Shows, Because They Say I Am A Musician.

Peace Is Here Now. It's Just That We Don't Recognize It. Let's Say That 98 Percent Of People In The World Are Wanting Peace. Now People Say, Even People From Siberia? Yes. We Want World Peace. The Two Percent Is Really Tying To Mess It Up. It's So Sad In A Way, Because By Messing It Up What Are They Going To Get? Their Children Are Going To Suffer, Their Grandchildren Are Going To Suffer, And They Might Even Die Before Something Gets Good.

Marriage Is A Difficult Project. When Seven Years Have Passed And All Your Body's Cells Have Been Replaced, You're Meant To Experience That Seven-year Itch.

Performance Art Is Going To Be The Future. Plays On Broadway Are So Restricted. But Performance Art Is Like Haikus, Just One Line Thing. And It's More Casual But More Interesting.

We Are All Dreamers Creating The Next World, The Next Beautiful World For Ourselves And For Our Children.

I Really Feel That Artists Or Musicians Are Controversial People. Controversy Is Part Of The Nature Of Art And Creativity. If People Are Not Doing That, They're Not Artists - They're Artisans.

My Husband John Lennon Was A Very Special Man. A Man Of Humble Origin, He Brought Light And Hope To The Whole World With His Words And Music.

I Get Very Sad When I Think About Vietnam Where There Seems To Be No Choice But Violence. This Violence Goes On For Centuries Perpetuating Itself.

World Peace Is One Project That We Have To Do Together.

In The '60s We Fought For Peace, When The Vietnam War Was On. We Were Against The Cops And Against The Politicians, And There Was A Lot Of Waving Banners And All That. And I Think In A Way, Just As They Were Enjoying That Machoism Of War, We Were Enjoying The Machismo Of Being Anti-war, You Know?

Love Is An Incredibly Strong Thing, It Goes Everywhere, It's Like Water, You Can't Stop It. Love, Once You Have It, Once You Create A Kind Of Pathway For It To Come Out, It Just Keeps On Coming Out.

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'm Putting Some Communication Out On Twitter Or Facebook Or Instagram, I Think That It's Helping Me, My Brain, You Know, Because It's Always Somehow Stimulated By People Who Are Sending Things To Me. And It Works Both Ways. It's Great. My Brain Is Very Happy About It.

All I’m Saying Is That Perhaps We Can Make A Revolution Without Violence.

Countries Have Lost Their Culture Because What They Wanted Was Money. Money Became The Running Theme In Every Country And Culture Was Sacrificed.

Most Of The Fans Of John Lennon And Maybe John And Yoko Are Younger Than Me.

When You Say 'i Love You', You Are Not Just Saying It To That Person. You Are Saying 'i Love You' To Yourself, The Planet & The Universe.

It's Difficult To Explain Love. You Want To Explain Water? You Need A Book For It. There Are Many Different Ways To Explain What Water Is. Love Is Big, It's Very Big. I Know That I Have Tons Of It. But Maybe We Don't Want To Open Up So Much, And We Think, Maybe We Don't Have So Much, But Yes, You Know That You Have Tons Of Love. We All Do. Through That Love We Can Connect, We Can Heal Each Other, We Can Make People, All Of Us, Happy, Joyful, And Make A Better World.

Experiencing Sadness And Anger Can Make You Feel More Creative, And By Being Creative, You Can Get Beyond Your Pain Or Negativity.

When I'm Inspired, I Jot Things Down And Put Them In A Pile.

Beatles Was 20th-century Folksong In The Framework Of Capitalism; They Couldn't Do Anything Different If They Wanted To Communicate Within That Framework.

I'm Free From Holding Personal Anger Because I Can Express What I Want Through My Music.

Women Are Very Intelligent And Not Appreciated. We Try To Pretend That We Are Not Clever, And It's Such A Pity That We Can't Show How Clever We Are.

Japanese Are Very Proud And Workaholics. Proud Workaholics.

When I Was 4 Years Old My Mother Put Me Into An Early Music Education School. That's Where They Taught You Perfect Pitch And Harmony And How To Write Music And All That. At That Time, One Of The Homeworks Was To Listen To All The Sounds And The Noise Of A Day And Transfer That Into Musical Notes.

I Love To Work. Doing Things We Love Is How We Relax, I Think.

If People Want To Make War They Should Make A Color War, And Paint Each Others’ Cities Up In The Night In Pinks And Greens.

I Relate To Happiness As An Ecstatic Moment - Something You Don't Create, You Encounter.

Look At Yourself In The Mirror And Don't Be Afraid To Notice How Beautiful You Are.

I Always Thought That I Was An Important Musician. If You Don't Have That Confidence, Why Would You Go On And Do It?

It Is Sad That The Air Is The Only Thing We Share. No Matter How Close We Get To Each Other, There Is Always Air Between Us.

The Whole World Is Starting To Realize That It Was The Most Unwise Thing For Our Society To Have Ignored Women Power, To Run The Society With Male Priorities.

I'm Very Thankful That I Can Make People Happy Just By Signing My Name.

There's Nothing Bad About Feminism. We Have To Help Each Other, Because There's A Lot Of Women In The World Who Are Suffering Because The Fact Is We're Not Equal. It's As Plain As That. It's Still A Men's World. I Don't Know. We'll Go On With It.

Art For Me Is Like Breathing. When I Stop Breathing, What Happens?

Be Kind Once A Day - Even If It's Just In Your Mind.

Everybody's An Artist. Everybody's God. It's Just That They're Inhibited. I Believe In People So Much That If The Whole Of Civilization Is Burned So We Don't Have Any Memory Of It, Even Then People Will Start To Build Their Own Art. It Is A Necessity -- A Function. We Don't Need History.

I Think That There Is A Sort Of Spiritual Power That Is Translating Into Our Bodies As We Perform. Performers Give, And Giving Is So Important. It Can Heal. That Is My Experience, Anyway.

I'm Not Going To Doubt My Life.

The Male Society Is Letting The Men Think Of The Women As Something Pretty And Soft And That Kind Of Thing. So I Just Wanted To Show What We Were. Women Are The Ones Who Actually Created The Human Race. I Mean Without Us Bringing Up The New Generation, There Wouldn't Be A Human Race.

I Think That All Women Are Witches, In The Sense That A Witch Is A Magical Being. Don't Be Scared Of Witches, Because We Are Good Witches, And You Should Appreciate Our Magical Power.

Music Is Like My Security Blanket. The First Medium That I Learned Was Music.

I Think Something That's Very Important For Us To Communicate Is Usually Very Simple. Like Breathing: Breathing Is Very Simple. You Don't Do A Dissonant 9th Harmony Or Something In Breathing. You Just Breathe, You Know. I Think That's How It Is With Very Important Messages.

You Know Harmony Only Exists In Music-isn't That Amazing? I Think That If You See Earth From Very Far Away, The Color Is Blue. That Is Very Interesting Because Blue Is The Color Of Communication.

Every Drop In The Ocean Counts.

Over 1,057,000 People Have Been Killed By Guns In The Usa Since John Lennon Was Shot And Killed On 8 Dec 1980.

My Beauty Secret Is... Nothing! I Don't Drink Too Much Water. I Don't Eat Very Well. Sometimes I Cheat And Grab Some Chocolate. The Best Thing Is To Eat What You Want, But Not Very 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.

A Dream You Dream Alone Is Only A Dream. A Dream You Dream Together Is Reality.

Mirror Becomes A Razor When It's Broken. A Stick Becomes A Flute When It's Loved.

Women Are Put In A Position Of Feeling Embarrassed About Their Bodies. It's So Ridiculous, But Also Astounding - We Have To Always Be Apologetic About Having Created The Human Race.

The First Idea, The First Art Piece I Ever Did, Was When I Was Four. I Cut The Seed Of A Pear In Half And The Seed Of An Apple In Half In Put Those Two Halves Together And Planted The Seed, Hoping A Very Strange Tree Might Grow. And I Never Stopped.

I Don't Particularly Consider Myself Just An Artist. I'm A Woman - I'm A Human Being.

I Am The Type Of Person Who Would Do Something Thoroughly If Someone Said, "i Don't Think You Can Do It." I Am Extremely Rebellious. I Have This Strong, Defiant Spirit.

What Surprises Me Is-even Though Discrimination Against Women And Racial Discrimination Still Exist, They Have Improved A Lot, Especially Among Artists. And Just When I Felt I Could Finally Take A Break, I Encounter The Age Discrimination. I Turned 72 And Started Noticing A Drastic Difference In People's Attitudes. I Started With Racism And Sexism In The Beginning And Fought Them So Hard And Was Finally Ready To Relax. Then, Here Comes Ageism, And I Feel Like, "give Me A Break!"

You Can Be Very Wild And Still Be Very Wise

Listen To The Sound Of The Earth Turning.

I Have Only One Life, So I Want To Make Sure It's A Good One.

I'm Just Trying To Do My Best Every Day, Hoping That I Have Done My Best Every Day, And Its Very Easy In A Way, But Also It's Not That Easy. Every Day Counts.

I'm Kind Of Honored To Be A Dragon Lady. The Dragon Is A Very Powerful, Mythical Animal.

Everyone Is An Artist And A Genius, I Think. If We Don't Choose To Limit Ourselves Then We Are Totally Accomplished.

The Universe Is A Space Bigger Than All Of Us We Are Part Of.

Your Thoughts Create Reality. The Most Pragmatic Way To Create World Peace Is To Use Your Power Of Visualization. Think Peace, Act Peace, Spread Peace, Imagine Peace. Your Thoughts Will Soon Cover The Planet. The Most Important Thing Is To Believe In Your Power. It Works.

Energy Is So Important. If You Don't Have It, Don't Bother With Rock And Roll.

Tape The Sound Of Friends Laughing Together. Save It For A Rainy Day.

Each Time We Don't Say What We Wanna Say, We're Dying.

Give Peace A Chance And Let's Hope That One Day We Will All Live In Peace.

Look At A Star In The Sky Not As Something Unreachable But As A Planet You Would Visit One Day.

No One Person Could Have Broken Up A Band, Especially One The Size Of The Beatles.

If You Have Too Many Quotes From Other People In Your Head, You Can't Create. You Have To Keep Your Head Empty. That's Why I Am Constantly Enjoying The Sky, The Park, The Walk.

To Have A Relationship That Is Pure And Passionate And Beautiful - I Think People Are Scared Of Having That Now. Especially Guys.

It Is Very Difficult For Us To Know We Love Somebody Because It Is An Insecure Position To Be In. But In The End, It Is Important To Be Honest About Your Love Because Life Is Not That Long.

I Have To Be Pretty Inclusive. I Have To Be Pretty Much Inside Of Me Rather Than Going Out And Finding Out What People Are Doing. I Don't Have The Time To. I Just Listen To My Mind, In A Way.

I Travel A Lot, So When I Arrive In A City, I Like To Go To Good Local Bookshops And Make A Selection Based On How I'm Feeling And What I'm Thinking. The Book I Pick Usually Seems To Have A Definite Karmic Connection!

Real Success Is Doing Things Right Every Day By Not Forgetting To Express Love To Your Friends.

I Have Been Known As The Minimal And Conceptual Artist For Over Five Decades. I Think I Haven't Changed Much.

When People Ask Me What The Most Important Thing Is In Life, I Answer: 'just Breathe.'

I Never Wanted To Be A Professional Artist; I Think That's Limiting.

If You Go Back To All My Albums, They're All Confessional.

Art Is My Life And My Life Is Art.

True Artists Are Prophets. I Don't Want To Be That Prophetic In That Sense Because It's So Lonely.

Art Is An Effort To Make You Walk A Half An Inch Above Ground.

Getting Into Creating In A New Genre Is Like Arriving To A New Country.

If You're Criticized Then You Can Use It As An Experience. Compliments, You Can't Use.

Compliments You

Controversy Is Part Of The Nature Of Art And Creativity.

In A Way The New Music Showed Things Could Be Transformed By New Channels Of Communication.

I Thank Pussy Riot For Standing Firmly In Their Belief For Freedom Of Expression, And Making All Women Of The World Proud To Be Women.

When You Go On A Stage, Before You Go On A Stage You're Really Scared And You're Really Frightened. You Don't Know What To Do. "why Did I Say Yes To This?" But Once You're On The Stage You Think, "okay."

We Don't Live By Just Sleeping And Eating. We Need Pride And Dignity In Our Lives. Work Gives You That.

Be Kind To Yourself This Evening. Buy Something For Yourself. Treat Yourself To A Meal. Look In The Mirror And Give Yourself A Smile

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.

Luckily We Never Injected Because Both Of Us Were Totally Scared About Needles. So That Probably Saved Us. And The Other Thing That Saved Us Was Our Connection Was Not Very Good.

Imagine A Dolphin Dancing In The Sky. Let It Dance With Joy. Think Of Yourself At The Bottom Of The Ocean Watching.

We Artists Have The Dignity To Tell The Truth To The People, Unlike Politicians.

I Did Not Break Up The Beatles. You Can't Have It Both Ways. If You're Going To Blame Me For Breaking The Beatles Up, You Should Be Thankful That I Made Them Into Myth Rather Than A Crumbling Group.

People Think That Their World Will Get Smaller As They Get Older. My Experience Is Just The Opposite. Your Senses Become More Acute. You Start To Blossom.

You Can't Dance If You Got Too Much Muck In Your Head.

Basically There Are Two Types Of People In The World: People Who Are Confident Because They Know They Have The Ability To Create, And Then People Who Have Been Demoralised, Who Have No Confidence In Themselves Because They Have Been Told They Have No Creative Ability, But Must Just Take Orders. The Establishment Likes People Who Take No Responsibility And Cannot Respect Themselves.

Dancing Is A Very Healthy Thing To Do For Our Body.

Society Was Built On Male Power, And Women's Power Was... Ignored Is The Best Word To Describe It I Suppose, We Have Been Running Society On One Power, Half A Power Really. And That's So Terrible. The World Needs Women's Power Too.

Many Incredible Artists Die Before They Were Famous.

If I Hear Dance Music, My Body Starts To Move. Whatever The Dance Music Is, I Can't Help It. With All That, I Still Felt, Well, Rock Is A Little Higher Art, But It Wasn't. Right Now, Because I Have So Much Experience With Dance Charts, I Started To Realize That It's Incredible Art. This Is Going To Be Known One Day As High Art.

You Are Beautiful. Don't Ever Think You Are Not. It May Be Such A Compliment That Does Not Come From A Man Too Often. They Are Shy, Proud, And Rude. Give Yourself Some Love. And Walk As What You Are - A Beautiful Woman. All Your Life.

Art Is A Way Of Survival.

I Respect Lady Gaga Very Much.

The Only Way You Can Better John Is By Copying Him Exactly.

We're All Water From Different Rivers, That's Why It's So Easy To Meet, We're All Water In This Vast, Vast Ocean, Someday We'll Evaporate Together.

I Trust In My Inspiration, Really, And That's Difficult Because Sometimes You Would Rather Be Technical. And Once You Empty Your Mind, Empty Your Brain, It's Really Incredible. I'm Very Caring About Things That Dash Into My Brain, And I Make Sure I Don't Just Clog It.

Creativity Is Innate And It Manifests Itself In So Many Forms. It Needs To Come Out Somehow Or It Destroys You In Some Way.

We Are Very Lucky Really, Because We Can Create Our Own Reality, John [lennon] And Me, But We Know The Important Thing Is To Communicate With Other People.

If A Woman Writes About A Domestic Situation, Everyone Automatically Assumes That It's About Her.

If I Was A Jewish Girl In Hitler's Day, I Would Become His Girlfriend. After Ten Days In Bed, He Would Come To My Way Of Thinking.

We Need To Really Do Something About The World. Otherwise, We're All Going To Blow Up Together.

Bad Stories Are Written About Me Because The Press Knows They Can Make Me Into A Weeping Dog And Few People Will Object.

There Are Things You Can Never Take, No Matter How Strong You Are.

The Establishment Likes People Who Take No Responsibility And Cannot Respect Themselves.

It's Better To Dance Than To March Through Life.

You Can't Love Someone Unless You Are In An Equal Position With Them. A Lot Of Women Have To Cling To Men Out Of Fear Or Insecurity, And That's Not Love - Basically That's Why Women Hate Men.

Life With Another Person Is Always Difficult.

Music Is Like My Security Blanket.

Sometimes I Have Compared Myself With A Scientist Or Something: When You Discover Something And You Don't Expect The Whole World To Understand It. I Always Thought I Was Doing That Kind Of Activity, In Art And In Music Too.

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 Often Wish My Mother Had Died So That At Least I Could Get Some People's Sympathy. But There She Was, A Perfectly Beautiful Mother.

Smile In The Mirror. Do That Every Morning And You'll Start To See A Big Difference In Your Life.

Nobody's Life Is A Bed Of Roses. We All Have Crosses To Bear, And We All Just Do Our Best. I Would Never Claim To Have The Worst Situation. There Are Many Widows, And Many People Dying Of Aids, Many People Killed In Lebanon, People Starving All Over The Planet. So We Have To Count Our Lucky Stars.

Worst Situation

We Know That Our Cells Are Speaking To Each Other.

When You Go Through A Negative Situation, Don’t Think About It. Make It Positive.

Everybody's An Artist. Everybody's God. It's Just That They're Inhibited.

I Never Went To Art School And I Never Thought Of Going To An Art School. It Was Just A Way Of Manifesting These Ideas I Had. Ideas Came To Me That I Needed To Express.

Distance Doesn't Exist, In Fact, And Neither Does Time. Vibrations From Love Or Music Can Be Felt Everywhere, At All Times.

Great Art Is Great Because It Inspired You Greatly. If It Didn't, No Matter What The Critics, The Museums And The Galleries Say, It's Not Great Art For You.

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