Nina Hagen

“It wasn't fun to go to school, because we had to wear these blue things around our necks. We had to join the Pioneer Society, and we had to salute with our hands over our eyes. Even then, I was thinking for myself. I thought this wasn't so different from the way the Nazis had conditioned people.”

“I sing about UFOs and extraterrestrials, and so I designed a UFO fashion. It includes science-fiction bikinis and Bermuda Triangle shorts.”

“I never have a bad night, bad day, bad moment.”

“I have a following. Whenever I am on tour they come. It is always sold out.”

“I was traveling on our tour bus through Europe and I was thinking I want to have long blonde hair.”

“I once had a dream and this one familiar god, who was probably one of my master teachers, said, 'You should not worry about being on the charts. That's not important.'”

“We can change the world if we change ourselves. We just need to get hold of the old patterns of thinking and dealing with things and start listening to our inner voices and trusting our own superpowers.”

“I have a wish for world peace and the truth. I would like to see a society that will bring happiness to all life forms. Of course, to the Nazis, I appear a rebel, but to the rebels, I appear like a normal person from Venus.”

“I grew up in East Berlin, in a family of artists.”

“Maybe one day I'll have a big hit, and the world will make a big sex symbol out of me like they always do when there's a new chick.”

“I sing 'All Apologies' with my own lyrics. People want to sing along, but then, oops, they realize it's a different story.”

“I have my own strength.”

“I am a Love Boat.”

“You have to see my show to believe that I'm the only unique Nina Hagen on this planet.”

“It doesn't matter how old people are. It matters if they love each other and have fun with each other. It has nothing to do with age. To get old is a mental disease. Everything is in the head.”

“Jesus Christ will be the leader of an intergalactic earth evacuation. We're getting some earth leaders up there to check the mother ship. The Bible says that the sky will be glorious and Christ will come back to us all.”

“People who are stuck in a Catholic church, that's OK for them because that's what they need right now.”

“As long as karma exists, the world changes. There will always be karma to be taken care of.”

“I don't have to try to be outrageous. I am outrageous.”

“I screamed and cried, but no one ever came. No doubt it was in one of those scream-filled nights in which my strong singer lungs and my crazy voice were born.”