Whenever there's an interview with me, I might read it, but I don't read the comments because they're so hateful sometimes. When someone writes something nasty, I just think, "If that's your contribution to my day, I really don't need your impoliteness." I'm lucky that people are very cool with me and I get a lot of love. I appreciate that.

My God is better than your God

The most significant New York club for me was Paradise Garage, where they played house music. This was around '84 or '85.

I mean, Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, I think the young kids sell lot of records. But for an older kind of artist, more of a sort of heritage, vintage type of artist, you have to think outside the box.

I suppose there is a lot of toughness in me.

I'd got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.

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