“Life’s too short to be a Go-Go for twenty years.”

However, if you listen to me I think you can hear years of abuse in my voice – both bad abuse and good abuse.

It will shock many – I’ve lived a full life and really enjoyed my time as a pop star.

I mean, in rock music terms I’m like a dinosaur.

With a kiss you can strip me defenseless.

You don’t have to be age 20 and size zero to be sexually viable or viable as a woman.

I just liked the idea of being engaged.

I was like the good girl, bad girl, there were no grey areas for me.

I had no musical training at all.

Oh my love, it’s you that I dream of Oh my love, since that day Somewhere in my heart I’m always Dancing with you in the summer rain

All through my twenties, I spent more time worrying what I didn’t have than thinking about what I did have. I wished that I was taller, had longer legs, slimmer hips, a smaller bottom, even straighter hair.

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

In your twenties, you think you are immortal. In your thirties, you hope you are immortal.

I always feel quite Jewish but I used to deny it until I was in my twenties.

The society was so different [in China] – it was a feudalistic society. It didn’t come to a point of industrial revolution until twenty years ago.

I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.

When they called me with the Nobel call from Secretary General of the Swedish Academy it was twenty minutes to six and he said well that was well hope I’m not disturbing you but I am the Secretary General of the Swedish Academy.

So here you are, in your twenties, thinking that you’ll have another 40 years to go.