Every artist has to make their own statements and they have to live with them.

I wasn't trying to be a role model for anybody. I don't think that you can.

As you get older, there will be a new challenge arising. What you thought you'd accomplished once, maybe the goal post has shifted and it's not what you're pursuing anymore, because you're not interested in that anymore, you know?

I'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike.

It's hard to tell how far women's individuality has come in the past twenty years.

It's not fair to compare one artist to another because they all come with their own sort of elements to the picnic, you know.

If you want to open a supermarket chain and put your face all around the globe, selling your baby and your dog, if it makes you happy, who am I to disagree, as the song goes. But it's not for me. I've always tried to keep my integrity and keep my autonomy.