I think that you have to experience darkness to feel empathy. For all of my failings - and I have many - I do have a complete ability to emphasize with people. And that all goes down to being "other." When you're young you think otherness is a state only you possess. When you get older you realize, "Actually, there's so many of us." In that we find community.

When you make a lot of money for a record company, they don't want you to evolve. Growing older, you naturally do.

I think the world is a dead carcass and I think the purpose of human beings is as maggots.

I wasn't good at being affable. You get beyond that and realise the attraction in any human being has more to do with what they give to someone rather than just being face candy.

Within three months I had gone from being this black sheep of the town to suddenly becoming a pop star.

When you have a creative mind it doesn't stop going.

I've always been "other." I've always felt odd; I have always felt foreign in the environment I've been in. When you are young, that is a really uncomfortable thing to feel. As an older woman I really embrace it.