I was sure that somewhere a grandiose carnival was going on in the sky, and I was missing it.

Partner dancing is a cultured act.

When I promise I'll do something, I do it. At least since I got sober.

Musicians are impossible.

I wasn't as used to the new dumb questions, so when men I had once thought of as wise daddies now asked me 'How do you write?' I did not try and spill red wine in their suede pants. I would just smile and say, 'On a typewriter in the mornings when there's nothing else to do.'

I posed as an album-cover designer and photographer... That I today have some album covers and photographs to show for myself is a monument to the attention-to-detail of my disguise.

I looked like Brigitte Bardot, and I was Stravinsky's goddaughter.

By 1976, I was, like, Gonesville. I practically lived at the Troubador for several years. When Bette Midler was there for six weeks, I went every day for both shows. I sat there mesmerized. The only person who went as much as I did was Cher.

Everybody steals my lines.

The only reason anything was off-white at the Chateau was because it had once been just plain white.