In memory, you can access something from the past, anything that you've experienced that you remember - it's there. Now, you might have a memento of it in a photograph or in a film or a building or some clothes that you wore. There might be something that connects you to this memory. But all of us are just all caught in this time, whatever that is.

Success breeds the excitement to continue going.

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

I'm not intensely private - I talk a great deal about my life and my work - I just don't play the game to excess.

I'm passionate about everything, actually. I'm passionate about life.

We think that this is just our world and we don't know what other people are thinking. Music actually is a phenomenal connector in that respect. It's a special language that defines certain boundaries and connects people in a particular way, a very emotional way, I have found.

The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition.