Quotes from Dusty Springfield

Sometimes you have to let people down in order to get on, particularly in showbusiness.

I was a nothing kid. Not particularly good. Not particularly bad.

My sexuality has never been a problem to me but I think it has been for other people.

A lot of people say I'm bent, and I've heard it so many times that I've almost learned to accept it.

It's marvellous to be popular, but foolish to think it will last.

I just decided I wanted to become someone else... So I became someone else.

Hell, have I been a hell-raiser!

You don't have to say you love me, just be close at hand. You don't have to stay for ever, I will understand.

Somehow I took whatever criticism there was very much to heart.

I'm the most misunderstood, misquoted person I know, honestly.

The only one who could ever reach me was the son of a preacher man.

My affections are easily swayed and I can be very unfaithful.

I find it an effort to keep up appearances.

I have tried sex with both men and women. I found I liked it.