"You know, honey, husbands come and go but I'm still Cher at the end of the day."

"If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life."

"I've been up and down so many times that I feel as if I'm in a revolving door."

"All of us invent ourselves. Some of us just have more imagination than others."

"I would have gone home to my mother, but I'm not that crazy about my mother."

"Christian said he'd call the next day, but in boy time that meant Thursday."

"Come hell or water high you'll never see me cry this is our last good bye."

"It was always 'Cher', I never thought of myself as anything but 'Cher'."

"I am a part of history whether people want to take it seriously or not."

"If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen."

"I've had so many rebirths, I should come with my own midwife by now."

"For someone who likes tattoos, the most precious thing is bare skin."

"Fitness - if it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body."

"You make good coffee . . . You're a slob, but you make good coffee."

"Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended."

"I am never offended when I see the drag-queens dressed up like me."

"Elvis was the first person in music that I really identified with."

"I think that the longer I look good, the better gay men feel."

"I'm still friends with all my exes, apart from my husbands."

"Going hungry never bothered me - it was having no clothes."

"If you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner."

"The only grounds for divorce in California are marriage."

"Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable."

"Life is about enjoying yourself and having a good time."

"If it doesn't matter in five years, it doesn't matter."

"Don't take your toys inside just because it's raining."

"Anyone who's a great kisser I'm always interested in."

"Honesty makes me feel powerful in a difficult world."

"I have a belief: What belongs to you, comes to you."

"It's a dirty job being ridiculous, but I'll do it"

"I love ghosts, I prefer ghosts to some people."

"Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes."

"I wear my clothes, my clothes don't wear me."

"I only answer to two people, myself and God."

"I'm just the worst little Buddhist in town."

"People are negative no matter what you do."

"Men aren't necessities, they're luxuries."

"To me marriage is for five or ten years"

"I'm going to have wrinkles really soon"

"Sometimes I feel like an old hooker."

"Women are the architects of society"

"Men are a luxury, not a necessity."

"Do you believe in life after love?"

"I'm from a Gypsy background!"

"What am I supposed to do, Sit around and wait for you? Well I can't do that, And there's no turning back. I need time to move on, I need love to feel strong. Cause I've got time to think it through, And maybe I'm too good for you!"

"When I grew up, it was a time when women were just supposed to be cute and not have many opinions. My mother and her friends were quite different. They were all the most beautiful women you've ever seen ... and they were very strong women."

"In my personal life I'm not very tough at all, but in my professional life, having to deal with being a woman in a man's world, I'm really tough. I never back down from a fight or an argument. I'm willing to stand there toe to toe with anyone."

"I just don't understand how anyone would want to be a Republican. I just can't figure it. I don't understand. If you're poor, if you're any kind of minority - gay, black, Latino, anything. If you're not a rich born-again-Christian, I don't get it."

"I'm going to die wearing the same things that I love wearing. I'm going to wear my jeans. I'm going to wear wifebeaters. I'm going to wear my leather jacket. I don't care. As long as I can look good in it, and feel comfortable in it, then I'm going to do it."

"Gay guys like a certain kind of woman. They like a flamboyant woman that's broken. They like a balls-to-the-wall woman, motherly but not; sexual but not. Gay guys are like this: they either love you or they don't even know you're on the planet. Once you have them, you have them."