Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch.

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've been a diva since I was four.

I wanted to make the album I always needed to make. I had to say the things I never could.

I have a wig for when I go outside among the regular folks, so they don't feel uncomfortable because I have a Day-Glo color somewhere in my hair.

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

The '80s was a really creative and brave period. Remember, it was a period of ultraconservatism, and so you needed brave people to push ahead like that.