People ask me so many questions.

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

When you go to Africa, and you see children, they're usually barefoot, dirty and in rags, and they'd love to go to school.

I can't understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still haven't really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa - 60 percent of people in - infected with HIV are women.

Desire, despair, desire. So many monsters.

I had a number of different labels. A lot of people assumed I was gay because I was wearing a man's suit, and one had to learn that it's OK, people will do that, and you don't always have to explain it one hundred percent, because they're never going to accept what your own interpretation is. It's all illusory.

I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory.