I have never been prouder to be a lifelong New Yorker than I am today with the passage of marriage equality.

The more you practice and study, the better you are so I still practice and study all the time.

Mix sheer hypocrisy with mediocrity, You play it safe every time.

I knew Queen Elizabeth didn't do any laundry! I knew I wasn't going to be doing laundry. I was going to be singing.

Everyone's gotta have a voice, to be able to speak out. Left supresses right, right supresses left, and what's left and what's right? You know? It's America. You gotta be able to speak out. That's why people came here from all over the world: to have a fair shake. Not more than somebody else - the same.

When I perform on stage, I often pretend to be someone other than myself to bring a certain emotion or intent to a song.

It is not a dirty word, "feminism." I just think that women belong in the human population with the same rights as everybody else... The problem is, "A feminist looks like this, or is like that." We are taught not to like ourselves as women, we are taught what we're supposed to look like, what our measurements are supposed to be. I never hear what measurements men are supposed to be. Just women.