I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.

Sharon Osbourne is such a blast and she's so, so bright.

When you become famous, they don't give you a handbook.

Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening!

Fame doesn't redeem you. It takes a long time to get there, and when you're finally there, you realise you still have authority figures telling you what to do.

I do have a lot of difficulty figuring out what I want to be working on, but what's the alternative? To be one of those people who has a million things they want to do, and then never does any of them? And then where will you be?

People used to throw rocks at me for my clothes, now they wanna know where I buy them.