Understand where it is you want to go. Then picture yourself there. If you can picture yourself there, then you can be there. Bottom line.

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.

If you saw me without makeup, you wouldn't recognize me.

Just like I am obsessed with the history of fashion, I love reading about the history of makeup.

When I sing I have a lot of visions. Like what's happening now in my life.

Music, in its higher state, for me, is worth living and dying for. It's worth traipsing around the globe, it's worth the accolades and the other side of the accolades...I always have sung to the angels and the higher parts of people's souls.

I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me.