“I’ve always been a health fanatic.”

My body is the shape I live in and it shapes the way I live.

Just as you maintain your home, your car, your garden, you should look after your greatest gift: your body.

Myra Breckenridge is the antithesis of sex symbol. She’s revolutionary; she’s a warrior.

I think that women should be decorative.

I COULDN’T stand that my husband was being unfaithful. I am Raquel Welch – understand?

There aren’t any hard women, only soft men.

Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict.

As far as I’ve been alive, women have always been more or less the symbol of sexuality rather than the male. We don’t see the naked male body, as the symbol of sex.

Latinos are here to stay. As citizen Raquel, I’m proud to be Latina.

I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So, I didn’t bake cookies. You can buy cookies, but you can’t buy love.

Not everybody is comfortable with my ethnicity. When I first came along in the business, they didnt really like the idea of my name being Raquel.

I was always willing to take a great deal of the burden of getting along in life on my own shoulders, but I wasn’t willing to give myself a pat on the back. I was always looking to somebody else to give me that. .. That was all wrong.

You know what’s the sexiest thing of all? A little mystery.

I was a bigger-than-life persona before I was anyone in my own mind.

What they say about footballers being ignorant is rubbish. I spoke to a couple yesterday and they are quite intelligent.

Weight-bearing exercises can help ward off osteoporosis and yoga helps ward off arthritis.

Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.

In my own personal time, horror films freak me out too much, so I tend to steer clear of watching horror films on my own.

Maybe I’m just a freak of nature, but I like every aspect of touring. I like it when you play amazing shows and everyone’s in high spirits, I like hating everything and wanting to be alone, I like the days that are boring and there’s nothing to do, I love the time wasted. I love everything about it.

Anything with no head is dead, and anything with two heads is a freak.

I’m a freak in the fondest way possible.

So pretty much, to sum it up, if you can freak someone out and bring that kind of emotion out of somebody with a song, you’re doing something right.

I’m a machine freak. I just love it when you can get a big ol’ steel machine to do the most that it’s capable of doing.

I am a workout freak.