Edith Piaf

I don't want to die an old lady.

I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.

Use your faults, use your defects; then you're going to be a star.

People say that I could sing the phone book and make it sound good.

Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.

Americans want beauties, not me. I’m not the Parisian bombshell they expected. Can you see me as a chorus girl? Where’s my feather up the ass? They think I’m sad, they’re dumb. I don’t connect to them

I've always wanted to sing, just as I've always known that one day I would have my own niche in the annals of song. It was a feeling I had.

If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.