The more you practice and study, the better you are so I still practice and study all the time.

If you have intercourse you run the risk of dying and the ramifications of death are final.

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.

I've always wondered what it would be like if somebody from outer space landed with three heads. Then all of a sudden everybody else wouldn't look so bad, huh? Well, OK you're a little different from me but, hey, ya got one head.

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

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

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