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

With fame, I'm able to create more. With every success, you have more freedom to create.

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

My mother said I was a little odd as a kid. I was alone a lot, but I didn't feel alone.

God has more important things to worry about than who I sleep with.

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.

Everyone's gotta have a voice, to be able to speak out. Left supresses right, right supresses left, and what's left and what's right? You know? It's America. You gotta be able to speak out. That's why people came here from all over the world: to have a fair shake. Not more than somebody else - the same.