All this fashion stuff - who's cool now - is just a bigger version of the cool kids versus the nerds.

I have no control over what people think of me but I have 100% control of what I think of myself.

I'm a feminist, of course, and I feel as if I'm very politically correct, although I do question what's PC and what's not - I don't just accept what I'm told.

ABBA was a direct influence on me.

Aretha Franklin was a teenage mom, a musician who came from an incredible Christian background, and where there was a lot of love, which is really inspiring in a feminist way.

I think that for the five-year-old watching MTV right now, Lady Gaga is going to be an iconic person. In 20 years, the people who are here and talking to journalists will be like, 'Oh Lady Gaga changed my life, Nicki Minaj changed my life.' They'll be saying who influenced them and it will be Lady Gaga, Nicki Minaj, artists like that.

I can take care of a house, and some people I meet, I think, 'You don't even know how to make a bed.