"Fans feel they know me, so they want me to be on-the-spot funny, and it's hard to fulfil their expectations."

“Tidy fees are the most effective remedy, both for the doctor and the patient.”

“I think the best thing for us is to just write songs that we like.”

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“When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.”

“If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.”

“the Jewish press in the USA is solely responsible for our poor publicity.”

Source : "The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1968-77". Book by Asadollah Alam, p. 427, 1991.

“One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.”

“I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that.”

“I am absolutely not a roll-on-stage kind of girl! I would be totally freaked out if I didn't warm up, and I don't know how other singers do it.”