I learned jazz; that comes from blues. I learned rock; that comes from blues. I learned pop; that comes from blues. Even dance, that comes from blues, with the answer-and-response.

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.

If you think you're hearing something and you can't think what it is. If you feel a quiet longing lift your heart into the wind. There you'll find my kindred spirit. There you'll meet me as a friend. It is just a kindred spirit and a song to let you in.

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.

If you saw me without makeup, you wouldn't recognize me.

I absolutely refuse to reveal my age. What am I - a car?

Just like I am obsessed with the history of fashion, I love reading about the history of makeup.