I'm not gonna worry about what people think about me. I'm too busy. I don't give a hoot.

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

I've been a diva since I was four.

I wouldn't record any song that I didn't like.

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.

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.

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.