When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire.

I turned myself to face me, but I've never caught a glimpse of how the others must see the faker.

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.

Time may change me, but I can't trace time.

I was always accused of being cold and unfeeling. It was because I was intimidated about touching people.

I feel that what I do is always contemporary with the society I'm living in... If I wanted to explain myself, that's how I'd explain myself: that I'm a diarist.

When I was 9 years old, I wanted to be the baritone sax player in the Little Richard band.