I've been a diva since I was four.

Some boys take a beautiful girl and hide her away from the rest of the world, I want to be the one to walk in the sun.

You know, I do speak the Queens English. It's just the wrong Queens that's all. It's over the 59th Street Bridge. It's not over the Atlantic Ocean.

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

I get the greatest feeling when I'm singing. It's other-worldly. Your feet are anchored into the Earth and into this energy force that comes up through your feet and goes up the top of your head and maybe you're holding hands with the angels or the stars, I have no idea.

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

I can't judge the way other people behave. I can only look at myself.