I thought people wouldn't take me seriously if too much acting was involved in the singing. But now I love the idea of mixing everything together.

You don't accept your weaknesses the same way that you love the weaknesses of another artist, because when they make mistakes they don't look like weaknesses.

When you love someone, you don't want them to suffer at all.

You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you?

Even moving around onstage seemed very artificial. But at the same time you have to make that effort in order to get back to who you are and even accept not moving, if that's who you are.

I was really nervous about people booing, because my mother had gone for a film 20 years earlier and had a terrible time with people booing, whistling, so I knew that in Cannes people can get aggressive.

Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, 'cause it's okay to be a boy, but for a boy to look like a girl is degrading.