I don't know many people who don't have somebody in their family who's a part of the gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender community. It's not like they're aliens or outsiders. This is family.

What, do you think that feminism means you hate men?

You can laugh when I talk, but not when I sing.

I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else.

Somebody did complain to me and tell me that my clothes were so loud they couldn't hear me sing.

If you think you're hearing something and you can't think what it is. If you feel a quiet longing lift your heart into the wind. There you'll find my kindred spirit. There you'll meet me as a friend. It is just a kindred spirit and a song to let you in.

I come from a line of great Sicilian women, and their mentality is to endure and push through to the other side.