I always sang. I wanted to be in a band with my sister, and I was, at 11. At 12, I started writing seriously, and that was my pacifier all through high school - that and painting.

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.

Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening!

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

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

Everything does go in a circle.