I think much has been made of this alter ego business. I mean, I actually stopped creating characters in 1975 - for albums, anyway.

Every time I've made a radical change it's helped me feel buoyant as an artist

The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it's not going to happen. I'm fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.

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

Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.

Comfort comes into your house first as guest, then as a host, then finally as the master.

When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.