In your fear, seek only peace. In your fear, seek only love.

I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.

Songwriting as an art is a bit archaic now. Just writing a song is not good enough.

I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.

I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work it's no longer his.

I think I quite desperately wanted to have that kind of special companionship [like marriage ] . . . a special relationship, yet I hid from it for many, many years and pretended to be cynical about it.

I have to take total control myself. I can't let anybody else do anything, for I find that I can do things better for me. I don't want to get other people playing with what they think that I'm trying to do.