When I sing I don't feel like it's me. I feel I am fabulous, like I'm 10 feet tall. I am the greatest. I am the strongest. I am Samson. I'm whoever I want to be.

I have never been prouder to be a lifelong New Yorker than I am today with the passage of marriage equality.

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.

When I sing I don't feel like it's me. I feel I am fabulous, like I'm 10 feet tall. I am the greatest. I am the strongest. I am Samson. I'm whoever I want to be.

It's that anonymous person who meanders through the streets and feels what's happening there, feels the pulse of the people, who's able to create.

My career never went like anyone else’s, so I never followed anyone.

If you fall, I will catch you. I will be waiting, time after time.