When I perform on stage, I often pretend to be someone other than myself to bring a certain emotion or intent to a song.

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 don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.

On my darkest days, I wear my brightest colors.

Mix sheer hypocrisy with mediocrity, You play it safe every time.

Music, in its higher state, for me, is worth living and dying for. It's worth traipsing around the globe, it's worth the accolades and the other side of the accolades...I always have sung to the angels and the higher parts of people's souls.

When I sing I have a lot of visions. Like what's happening now in my life.