With "Let's Dance," there was actually a chance that I was actually going to be able to keep the money I had made.

I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar.

There's just some dysfunctionalism with artists. There are good things and bad things about being an artist, and the good thing is, sometimes you get an inside line on what's really happening. You develop these strange antennae that clue you in to what's really going on.

I think hip-hop is actually one of the most challenging things that's happened in music in a long time.

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left?

What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a different way each time. You know, what I do is not terribly intellectual. I'm a pop singer for Christ's sake. As a person, I'm fairly uncomplicated.

I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be.