57 Quotes by Nina Hagen

Who are we to judge somebody for who he's allowed to fall in love with?

You don't always have to have a record out. I'm not a sausage factory, you know, turning out records every year.

I grew up in East Berlin, in a family of artists.

It wasn't fun to go to school, because we had to wear these blue things around our necks. We had to join the Pioneer Society, and we had to salute with our hands over our eyes. Even then, I was thinking for myself. I thought this wasn't so different from the way the Nazis had conditioned people.

I once had a dream and this one familiar god, who was probably one of my master teachers, said, 'You should not worry about being on the charts. That's not important.'

People who are stuck in a Catholic church, that's OK for them because that's what they need right now.

Maybe one day I'll have a big hit, and the world will make a big sex symbol out of me like they always do when there's a new chick.

I sing about heaven and hell, angels and demons.

I heard opera all day long. From the time I was 9 years old, I was imitating the singers; later I studied opera. But we also got Western television and radio, from the Americans in West Berlin. When I was 11 years old, I turned into a hippie and gave flowers to policemen. And when I was 21 and left Berlin for London, I became a punk.