Top 46 Quotes & Sayings by Nina Hagen

When I was growing up in East Germay, everyone said there was no God. So I started looking for it myself.

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.

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

You don't always have to have a record out. I'm not a sausage factory, you know, turning out records every year.

I have my own strength.

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.

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.

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

I know what's best for me, and I want to do things my way. So, now I listen to my inner voice and my heart - and that's how I make my decisions.

Who are we to judge somebody for who he's allowed to fall in love with?

I meet many people, I talk with them, like a TV show host. I show what's going on with Greenpeace, interesing political things, I have artists, musicians and bands.

I am a Love Boat.

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.

I heard opera all day long. From the time I was 9 years old, I was imitating the singers; later I studied opera. But we also got Western television and radio, from the Americans in West Berlin. When I was 11 years old, I turned into a hippie and gave flowers to policemen. And when I was 21 and left Berlin for London, I became a punk.

It's a human right to be able to have a relationship.

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

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.

You see, you learn from all your bad experiences, so they're really positive. It's all part of the cosmic knowing.

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 sing about heaven and hell, angels and demons.

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

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

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

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.'

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.

Do some selfless service for people who are in need. Consider the whole picture, not just our little selves.

Life is so great every day. I am telling things every day.

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

I create my own lyrics. I have a great band. I have a drummer from East Berlin.

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

We live in a democracy and I do not understand why highly respected scientists from top international branches are not able express themselves!

I don't have to come back, because I am still here! And I'm not an '80s thing. I already worked with my first band back in East Germany and that was soooo '70s, young man. I'm a '70s thing. If I'm a thing at all... and an exciting thing.

I'm Opera Singer. I can sing Brecht, Weil.

Lady Gaga is a pop prostitute, a satanic b - with her fascist and demonic secret signs! Her pop prostitution has more to do with bikini advertising than with warmth.

I woke up; I go to the window, open the curtain. I don't know why! In the middle of night, usually I don't do that. Something drove me... And then I was freeze-framed! The lightship showed one light after the other, in such intensity!

Every year I'm doing different projects, concerts, touring, open-air festivals.

I'm from East Berlin. I grew up in the Bertold Brecht, Kurt Weil tradition, also in the old hippie tradition.

You have to see my show to believe that Im the only unique Nina Hagen on this planet.

I wrote many songs about UFOs.

Karma, ahhh. We sow what we reap... We reap what we sow! We reap what we sow. The law of cause and effect. And we are all under this law.

Extensions is you suddenly have long hair when you have short hair, and you can sleep with it and you have it forever, as long as you want to.

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.

My daughter Cosma is a very popular actress in Germany. She also organizes these wonderful open-air parties. She has a wonderful teacher, she's very smart. And I sometimes perform at her festivals.

I want to make another film. I want to make a better film about the legendary Babaji, with more close-encounter stories of people who have been with him.