Just having medicine isn't equivalent to medical care. You need the health systems, you need to create the social framework so that people feel safe.

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

The momentum of time is always going forward. You cannot repeat what has been done before. You can't go back.

I've never been a social person. When I grew up, the other girls would all be combing their hair and exchanging lipstick, and I just couldn't do that group thing.

Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin.

I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free.

If people like your music, you can't guarantee they're going to love you.