Quotes from Princess Stephanie of Monaco

With my songs and music, it's a way of sharing things with people that really have to do with me.

My choices and my decisions belong to me. I even accept my errors.

I feel I must have been an elephant in a former life. I love the sensitivity and peaceful force of these creatures.

My father's a very busy man.

You can't stigmatize people, you can't cut away people you admire just because they suffer AIDS. It's just not right.

Nobody can imagine how much I've suffered.

When you see the numbers who come to the circus, you understand that we don't get that by abusing animals.

Circus is the magic you should show your children.

Animals are the traditional circus. It's what people remember from their childhood.

If you have 20,000 people and they like you, they give you their support, that's so gratifying.

You ask people, 'What is the circus?' They'll say, 'Animals, clowns and acrobats!' That's what people want. If you say you don't have animals, they walk away.

My sister and brother and I grew up speaking both languages - French to our father and English to our mother. But when we three kids are talking to each other, we use English.

I prefer adventure to comfort.

It's hard to see a certain type of press try to destroy your life.

People imagine that everything is easy when you're a princess, but we're still human beings. Some of my friends don't want to go out with me anymore - to go to a restaurant, I have to use a different door.

My mother sang very well. She proved this in her film 'High Society.'

I am delighted to be an artist and follow in my mother's footsteps, even though I know I am not allowed to make a single mistake.

I live a normal life. A quiet life.

The fight against AIDS and the fight for the emancipation of women go hand-in-hand.

I don't see myself as a rebel. Of course, it all depends on what you consider normal.

I was always the headstrong child in the family. My mother and father called me a rebel at 2 years old. But they always accepted me as an individual.

I love my fragrance like I love my records. My perfume is myself.

Circus is what real life should be like. It's sincerity, feeling, emotions. All real. There are no lies in circus. There are artists working together to give a smile. It's a world where people help one another. It's the only show where a family, everyone from children to their grandmothers, can sit together and all be entertained by the same thing.

Nobody has really tried to understand me or my behaviour, which just reflected my decision to enjoy life to the full.