Here I am, one of the most colorful women of my time - if not of my block - being made to sound positively legumelike in printed interviews.

My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.

Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera are doing pretty well at getting noticed - a lot of people are doing pretty well at it. But you wonder whether they'll last, because many of them don't have the ability to get an audience to love them. You say, "That's a fabulous body" or "I like that song"; you don't say, "I love them because I know them." You can't know them.

I'm working my way toward divinity.

I have my standards. They're low, but I have them.

My mother would only let us go to the musicals.

When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just had a fuzzy notion of what life would be like if I became what I pictured.