For me, I've gotten better at that since I've gotten older. I never was good at that when I was younger.

Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance.

Comparing Madonna with Marilyn Monroe is like comparing Raquel Welch with the back of a bus.

In writing the autobiography, I can really chuckle when I look at the songs. I was acting out the part. I saw myself as a victim.

I'm very uncomfortable with the idea of vaginas. They bother me in the way that spiders bother some people.

I like the big bombastic singers, but I'm also very drawn to what I call character singers. They're people who obviously aren't very huge singers, but they've got this ability to tell a story and touch you emotionally without really using any kind of histrionics or special effects.

I'm not someone who can sing anything... And my favorite singers aren't people whose voice you would say is amazing. I'm a big Bob Dylan fan, a huge David Bowie fan... none of those people have orthodox, cabaret voices. These are people where what they're singing about is just as important as how they're singing it.