What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that.

My girls are very fashionable. They have a very good eye for marrying style and fashion.

When people are going on to the next plateau of whatever this thing is called life, I also want them to breathe easily, even if it's the last one they take here with us. I guess I'm the welcoming committee and ushering committee.

But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.

People are uncomfortable with sexuality that’s not for male consumption.

I think we [with Riccardo Tisci] share a sensibility about art - we pull from the ancient future.

A lot of people have dementia, which is great, because then they don't recognize me.