My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We've all been very athletic.

Music has its own depths, and I let it take me where it takes me, even if it means stripping all my clothes off.

Even if I sing like a robot, it is still an emotional robot.

I'm still shocked every time I see snow. The first bit of snow each year... I stay up and I watch it. And then I go out and pick it up and eat it and move around in it.

Some songs come from my head, some from my throat, but there will always be moments when it is an injection of the soul.

I've had more misrepresentations than I can handle, and people have told the wickedest lies about me. A lot of them have taken their frustrations out on me, and I don't like that because it can wound. Not necessarily me, but those around me. Journalists can be so bad.

I don't think 'pop' should mean that you had no talent.