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.

Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.

I don't feel there are enough women artists out there who are saying anything of tremendous relevance.

I think it takes a lot to put oneself in a place where, you know, that thing about "Feel the fear and do it anyway." You wonder what the driving force is that makes you want to do that and not just stay in a safer place.

The dynamic between two individuals starts off with everything warm and nice and fabulous and good. Working and living together can serve you quite well, but when it starts to go wrong - oh, boy!

When you get to be nearly 60, you do take stock. You don't know what's around the corner.

Fame for fame's sake is toxic - some people want that, with no boundaries. It's unhealthy.